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The day before our interview, however, in the Thursday media pen in Baku, Bottas had sounded positive, bordering on cocky, about his chances of remaining in the sport. His focus, he said, was fully on F1. A journalist’s question on alternatives revealed that he’d considered a switch to IndyCar, but that pathway was looking less and less like something he’d be thinking about – or needing to think about…
“I think for me, it’s very clear where I want to be and where I most likely will be, which is in Formula 1,” Bottas told the journalist. “Let’s say if it’s a hypothetical question of ‘if not Formula 1’, I would definitely race. I’m a racer, I’ve been racing all my life and I couldn’t just quit racing. Plan B would be IndyCar, try and win the championship in x amount of years – but I don’t think that’s yet.”
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By Friday morning, he’s perhaps measuring his words a little more carefully when I ask him where that confidence over his future was coming from.
“I think the confidence probably is from my side,” he says. “I know that I should be in Formula 1 and based on just how positive, let’s say, the feedback I’ve got from Mattia and his intentions for the future, I feel like I’m in a strong position. But still… it’s too early really to say much more than that.”
Mattia is Mattia Binotto, Ferrari’s former Team Principal, who after 18 months out of the sport, joined Kick Sauber/Audi as Chief Operating and Chief Technical Officer, beginning work on August 1 for a team still yet to score a point in 2024.
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