Valtteri Bottas is eager to get back on track with Alfa Romeo in Hungary after a tough French Grand Prix weekend that he concluded once again out of the points. Alfa is in the midst of a performance slump that started at Silverstone and extended to Paul Ricard where neither Bottas nor teammate Zhou Guanyu were top ten contenders on race day. From P11 on the grid, Bottas suffered a poor start that dropped him down the order to 16th on the opening lap. Slow launches due to excessive wheelspin have been a chronic issue at Alfa Romeo, and it led the Swiss outfit to update the transmission of its C42 with new componentry supplied by Ferrari. But Bottas felt that the problem at Paul Ricard was...
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