Valtteri Bottas

Cadillac · P23 · 0 p

The Cadillac car currently sits in the back half (3.22 s/lap off the fastest car in race pace). Bottas is stronger on Sunday than on Saturday: race pace (3.88 s/lap) is closer to the front than qualifying pace (4.03). Form has been stable over the last five races. In wheel-to-wheel combat Bottas outperforms the car: the driver share of attack is +0.21 s/lap – Bottas gets past cars the pace numbers say should not be passable.

Bottas has 0 points to Pérez's 0. In qualifying the intra-team qualifying battle stands 8–8, by 0.031 s/lap on average in Bottas's favour. In races where both were classified: 4–1 to Pérez, and in race pace Pérez is 0.301 s/lap quicker over the season. Current form (weighted to recent races) gives Pérez an edge of 0.65 s/lap. Tyre management is better than the team-mate's (+0.009 against +0.022 s/lap stint slope versus the field).