"Just get out of here!"

“Just get out of here!” Fierce attack against F1 duo

Valtteri Bottas has been heavily criticized.(Bild: AP/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, APA/AFP/SIMON WOHLFAHRT)

Formula 1 rookie Valtteri Bottas has to put up with harsh criticism. Dutch touring car driver Tom Coronel attacks the Sauber driver and calls for his resignation: "Just get out!" Australian Daniel Ricciardo, who is chasing points in Formula 1 for Racing Bulls, Red Bull Racing's sister team, is also under fire.

In an interview with "Formule 1", expert Tom Coronel takes the Finnish Formula 1 driver Valtteri Bottas to task. "We can expect more from a driver like Valtteri Bottas," is the 52-year-old's verdict. "It is always difficult to go from the best team to the worst team, but then I would rather give a young talent a chance there."

Little is currently going according to plan for Valtteri Bottas.(Bild: AFP/APA/BENJAMIN CREMEL)

Bottas drove for Mercedes from 2017 to 2021. He then moved to Alfa Romeo and is now racing for Sauber. Like teammate Zhou Guanyu, he has yet to score a point. Coronel doesn't like the fact that Bottas is ending his career at Sauber: "Do something else. Go to Finland and do funny things or funny videos and give your place to someone else who needs it to gain experience and grow."

"He's destroying the careers of young people"
 And then Coronel becomes clear. "He's destroying the careers of young people," he says, taking Bottas apart. "Why doesn't a Felipe Drugovich drive Formula 1? Bottas has simply shown nothing at all!"

Daniel Ricciardo(Bild: APA/AFP/Martin KEEP)

Ricciardo also criticized
Daniel Ricciardo also gets his comeuppance. "Stop with Formula 1. He has no place in a training team anyway. Formula 1 is for the 20 best drivers in the world and he hasn't been one of them for a long time," says Coronel about the Racing Bull driver.