- Toto Wolff has ref📖uted claims Valtteri Bottas’ future wi꧋th the team is in doubt amid recent speculation.

Earlier this week, the reported that Mercedes are losing faith ꦑwith the Finn after his stut🍰tering start to the season. 

In an interview with , Wolff dismissed the rumours as “nonsense” and believes Bottas’ performance at Portimao, where he claimed pole position, shows he has the pace to remain with the te🔴am. 

In the 🔥same interview, Wolff also sai⭕d: “Lewis Hamilton deserves to be champion because of his consistency.”

- Fernando Alonso believes criticism surrounding his form “is getting bigger than what it is”, bla📖ming the media for over-exaggerating his strugg𝐆les.

In an interview with , Alonso said: “At the same time, I had one weekend where I was not totally comfort🌞able in Imola and the problem that in Formula 1 there are a lot of media, a lot of articles and unfortunately two weeks between races, because if it was back to back from Imola to [Algarve], there would’ve been much less talk.”

- Haasꦿ team principal Guenther Steiner approves of Sebastian Vettel’s support towards Mick Schumacher, describing it as ‘cool’ and ‘correct’. ()

- Two-time 🅠F1 champion Mika Hakkinen says Max Vers♛tappen needs to stop making small mistakes if he is to topple Hamilton this season.

In his , Haikkinen wrote: “One area of fru☂stration for Max has been track limit penalties. He should have won in Bahrain and could have taken pole position and set the fastest lap in Portugal. 

“But each time he put all four wheels over the line at some point on the circuit. It is so easy to do, but you cannot affo🤡rd to make small mistakes like that.  To beat Lewis, Max needs to do a perfect job each weekend.”

- Former Rꦦenault team boss Cyril Abiteboul has now been appointed as a motorsport advisor to the engineering company Mecachrome. 

Mecachrome is manufacturing aꦉ number of significant parts for the Renault power unit ▨that Alpine uses in F1.