Having spent five years alongside Sir Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes, Valtteri Bottas sees the peculiarity in watching the seven-time champion get knocked out in the first qualifying phase in Saudi Arabia. Hamilton changed his set-up ahead of qualifying in Jeddah, but was eliminated in the first part as he set a lap good enough only for P16. He ended the session eight tenths of a second slower than team-mate George Russell, who made it to Q3 along with Bottas. It epitomised what has been an erratic Silver Arrows car of late after Russell ended qualifying in Bahrain last week a second adrift of the 37-year-old, and the Finn finds it strange. 'It's weird to see. I would guess he had some kind of...
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