Within this Australia GP, Bottas completed the race, Sunday (02/26/2017), behind Lewis Hamilton who is a teammate. While Sebastian Vettel won the first prize with his Ferrari.
"I really hope that the results were a little better, but this is a pretty good start," said Bottas as reported by the BBC.
"The main question mark for me is when at the beginning of the race when he did not have the speed and at the end of the race when you feel a little slip. At that time I was close to Lewis but then began to lose speed in corners, more than a year ago.
"There will be a big challenge from Ferrari," he said predicting the course of the season, Mercedes related efforts to maintain the dominance of the past few seasons.
