Bottas: Sticking around for Audi F1 era making more sense
Bottas: Sticking around for Audi F1 era making more sense
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Bottas: Sticking around for Audi F1 era making more sense
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Bottas: Sticking around for Audi F1 era making more sense
Bottas: Sticking around for Audi F1 era making more sense
But why would Audi want to keep him? He's only slightly better than Zhou but without the potential to promote the Audi brand in China.
Audi wants a German driver. It would easier to replace Zhou when they take control.
Why is it easier to replace Zhou than Bottas?
Chinese customers are not interested in overpriced German cars. Their regional suppliers offer design copies for way less. Volkswagen has dropped prices so much, that the same car in Europe costs like 30% more. Helps that they build them in china too. Audi Motorsport, or Quattro as a brand is in no man’s land in china anyway. Bottas driving a shitbox. If you’d put Zhou in the second Red Bull he would perform like every other race driver in that seat, bar his mental health limiting his confidence. These drivers are within margin the same but limited to their teams, machinery and confidence.
You're making a case for why making them interested in overpriced cars is a good idea. F1 is advertising and that's never about explaining what people need but what they think they need.