Valtteri Bottas is working towards producing his best on a consistent basis in order to fight for ൩a maiden Formula 1 world title after conceding the 2019 drivers’ crown to Mercedes te🐼ammate Lewis Hamilton at the United States Grand Prix.

While Bottas is enjoying his best-ever F1 campaign this year and will secure his highest ꦫfinishing position in an F1 w𒀰orld championship as runner-up, the Finn accepts he still has improvements to find to secure an F1 world title having seen Hamilton wrap-up the crown with two races to spare.

Bottas duly sees Hamilton as t🍎he benchmark for his own performances and feels he hasn’t reached his𝔍 optimum yet over the course of a full F1 season despite taking four wins plus 11 additional rostrum results so far in 2019.

“Every driver always keeps improving and as long as you ღwant it, you can improve,” Bottas said.

“Lewis always wants it all the time, he’s not chilling out, he’s always working to improve, but at least from what I c🌠an see and the team c♓an see too, our relative performance gap is getting smaller and smaller and, for sure, I haven’t yet reached my peak. So, it’s up to me to work on it and improve.

“There’s no doubt he’s motivated to win I don’t know how many championships but no one else knows how motivated🐓 I am, deep inside, to win at least▨ my first title.”

Despite the 67-point gap between himself and Hamilton in the drivers’ sta🐼ndings heading into the final two races of the season, Bottas is certain the key differences with the Mercedes teammates has been minimal but accepts costly mistakes have made him pay this season.

Bottas crashed out while fighting for a podium position at t༺he German Grand Prix, with Hamilton running in the lower points places after an earlier off at the time, while at the next race in Hungary a disastrous opening lap saw him drop out of contention. The Finn saw the last of his world title hopes effectively ended by his qualifying crash in Mexico as Hamilton stormed to victory in tღhe race.

“There haꦍven’t been big gaps between us as the averages show really tiny numbers,” he saiཧd. “There are a lot of variables and things can shift quite quickly but the overall performance could always been better.

“There have been mistakes from my side, that cost me better starting pos𒁏itions for the races.

“Mexico is a good example๊ of that, where I steppe🦂d over the limit trying to find all the performance from the lap but that can happen.”