Bot🐠tas will move onto chassis #6, the same chassis that Hamilton has been using since the start of the 2021 season. 🥃The reigning world champion will subsequently run chassis #4, which his teammate raced last time out in Baku.

Speaking during Thursday’s FIA press conference at✱ Paul Ricard ahead of the s🎃eventh round of the season, Bottas confirmed the swap was pre-planned.

“It’s not a new🉐 chassis,” Bottas explained. “It’s different and it was always planned for me to change to a different chassis at this point.”

It will mark the third time that Bottas has changed his chassis so far this year. His first suffered heavy damage in a high-speed𝔍 crash with Williams driver George Russell at the Emili༺a Romagna Grand Prix at Imola.

A Mercedes spokesperson confirmed to mahbx.com that the change has been 🔥made simply to e⛦ven out chassis mileage between the two cars and there is no performance element related to the swap.

Mercedesꦐ plans to r🔯eintroduce chassis #5 - which was damaged at Imola - at some point before the end of the season. 

Bottas’ worst start to an F1 season continued at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, where he was left at a loss to explain his lack of pace throughout the weekend as he slumped to a 12th-place finish.🔯 After the race, the Finn suggested that something was🧔 wrong with his car.

Baku ended up being a role reversal of Monaco, where on that occ൲asion Bottas was the more competitive of the two Mercedes driver🦩s.

And Bottas is hoping to put his run of bꦛad races behind h🅷im in France.

“We saw that in Monaco, for me, I managed to find the set-up and the confidence and get the tyres to work and Lewis didn’t,” he said. 🐓“It almost felt like vice-versa in Baku.

“I think our car is quite on a knife-edge on those kind of tracks. But I think at least the next few tracks it’s a bit more normal and hopefully we can 𒀰get a reasonable set-up and and that it’s not that easy to to go into the wrong direction.”