Toto Wolff has back꧅ed Valtteri Bottas to bounce back “stronger” after his disappointment of not being able to win Formula 1’s Monaco Gr♐and Prix. 

Bottaౠs looked set to take pole position until a last-gasp effort from teammate Lewis Hamilton pippe𒉰d him right at the end of qualifying.

While Hamilt🧔on went on to record h🃏is fourth win of the season, Bottas had to settle for third after a puncture picked up in a pitlane collision with Max Verstappen hampered his race. 

The Finn has now fallen 17 points behind Hamilton in🍌 thꦑe 2019 championship standings.

“Valtteri 2019 is going to get out of this stronger,” Wolff said. “I think he has shown huge resilience and dete🐻rmination in these last races. 

“His💮 speed was mind-blowing in qualifying and I have no dꦗoubt that this will annoy the hell out of him and he’s going to come back strong, very very strong, in Montreal. 

“Max lost a position because of the penalty and because of the manoeuvre, and ꦚValtteri lost the second place, 3 points more l🧜ost, and Mercedes lost the 1-2. 

“But then again, from the team’s point of vie𝓀w we are super happy with the 1-3. From Valtteri’s point, he will be gutted. 𝓰;

“He had the pace this weekend. He could’ve had pole yesterday in terms of raw speed and today was, P2 was the minimum I tꦆhink. He was feeling this w♍as taken away from him.” 

Bottas was convinced he had the pace to challenge for the wi💝n had it not been for his clash with Verstappen.

“Obviously a disappointing weekend for ⛎me, because I think the speed was really there, I was feeling good in the car,” Bottas explained. 

“Small margins in qualifying and that made the race difficult. So we had to stop same time as Lewᩚᩚ🔴ᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚis and I lost a bit of time with the pit stop, so Max got me in the pit lane. 

“He left me no room. I got a puncture from that and then I was s🦂tuck behind the cars, so a bit of a Sunday drive in the end.

“Definitely there was a lot of pace left and I was kind of trying to see if I could get any🌞where close to the fastest lap. 

“Honestly the whole race felt like a Sunday drive around Monaco. It was a bit of a shame but that’s ho🍬w it is sometimes.”