‘I just hit bad traffic’ – Bottas explains Qualifying trouble in Madrid

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Well Valtteri, talk us through that one from your side,
saw there was a bit of a moment with Carlos towards the end of Q1 there.
Yeah, it was an unlucky qualifying for me actually, run two and three both,
I just got hit by traffic, so I only did one run in the, I was the first car out,
one run in the beginning and that was it, so I didn't ever really have the chance to do a
proper lap, so sometimes it's what it is and it's a tough track for that because there's
many blind spots, so for cars on the slow laps it's kind of hard to see if there's somebody coming.
How have you been feeling in the car otherwise this weekend and what's
your thinking for tomorrow's race?
It's been a tricky weekend for us, we know that we were lacking
in the high-speed corners and here's plenty of those, so it's been tricky,
but tomorrow is going to be another tough day in terms of tyre deck,
it seems quite a rough track for that, but hopefully some action,
some opportunities and never know.
Thanks a lot.
