-&ꩲnbsp;Toto Wolff has refuted claims Valtteri Bottas’ future with the team is in൩ doubt amid recent speculation.

Earlier this week, the reporꦛted that Mercedes are losing faith with the Finn after his stuttering start to the season. 

In an interview with , Wolff dismissed the rumours as 🍰“nonsense” and believes Bottas’ performance at Portimao, where he claimed pole position, shows he has the 🅘pace to remain with the team. 

In the same interview, Wolff also said: “Lewis Ha𒈔milton deserves to be champion because of his consistency🧸.”

- Fernando Alonso believes criticism surrounding his form “is getting bigger than what it is”🍌, blaming the media for over-exaggerating his struggles.

In an interview with , Alonso said: “At the same time, I had one weeken🍎d where I was not totally comfortable in Imola and the problem that in Formula 1 there are a lot of media, a lot of articles and unfortunately two weeks between races, because if it was back to back from Imola to [Algarve], there would’ve been much less talk.”

- Haas team principal Guenther Steiner approves of Sebastian Vettel’s support towards Mick Schumacher, de🧔scribing it as ‘cool’ and ‘correct’. ()

- Two-time F1 champion Mika Hakkinen says Max Verstappen needs to stop making small mistakes if he is to to🏅pple Hamilton this season.

In his , Haikkinen wrote: “One area of frustration for Max has been track limit penalties. He should have won in Bahra𝔉in and could have taken pole position and set the fa𓆏stest lap in Portugal. 

“But each time he put all four wheels over the line at some point on th༒e circuit. It is so easy to do, but y🦩ou cannot afford to make small mistakes like that.  To beat Lewis, Max needs to do a perfect job each weekend.”

- Former Renault team boss Cyril Abitebไoul has now been appoint🅷ed as a motorsport advisor to the engineering company Mecachrome. 

Mecachrome is manufacturing a number of significant parts for the Renault power unit that Alpine uses iಌn F1.