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Bottas claims "anything is possible" despite Alfa Romeo realism

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Bottas claims "anything is possible" despite Alfa Romeo realism

Bottas has made the switch from Mercedes to Alfa Romeo

Ian Parkes & Ewan Gale

Valtteri Bottas has accepted he will have to be "realistic" in his first season with Alfa Romeo but feels F1's new era ensures "anything is possible".

The Finn has made the switch from championship winners Mercedes to the Hinwil-based outfit, which finished ninth in last season's constructors' standings.

Bottas took a solitary victory in his last campaign with the Silver Arrows although was often cast into a supporting role as Lewis Hamilton duelled with Max Verstappen for the drivers' title.

This year the F1 pecking order could be reshuffled given the introduction of new regulations changing the aerodynamic make-up of the cars.

With this in mind, Bottas told GPFans in an end-of-season interview: "I feel like that's the beauty of these new regulations, and the budget cap, and everything, that I feel like anything is possible.

"I definitely feel like Alfa Romeo, it should be higher up than it is now, at least from what I've seen at the factory and the people, the motivation and everything.

"That's the beauty of the new regs, you just don't know, so it's quite hard to accept.

"For sure, I'm realistic. I don't think we're going to be consistently fighting for the wins next year, like [we did] with Mercedes, but consistently being in the points in the first year with the team, I think that is possible.

"There are so many variables and so many things that will eventually affect how it's going to be."

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