Lewis Hamilton takes credit for Bottas improvement

Lewis Hamilton thinks Valtteri Bottas took advantage of his racing secrets after Mercedes engineer Riccardo Musconi has moved from the team looking after Hamilton to Bottas. According to Hamilton, Musconi may have revealed some secrets to the Finn, and thus so would have benefited from the advice of his former engineer. “He’s a very talented engineer and he naturally wants to progress. Nobody wants to stay in the same position and being the chief engineer must be the goal of every engineer, “But we had learned a lot and by working together, I had managed to get things out of him that he may not have realised he had, or that would have taken longer, and vice versa. “So when he came by, inevitably he would have said ‘Valtteri, why don’t you do that, Lewis does that, why don’t you ‘” This year was even harder because I was thinking ‘how am I going to change that ‘, I wanted to change those little things that would have been done the same way without losing performance.” Source- thejudge13

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