Listen to this article Bottas starred in his first qualifying outing for his new team, taking sixth alongside his former Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton. But at the start the Finn suffered massive wheelspin as he was swallowed by the chasing pack. He continued to drop down the order on the first lap, coming through in 14th. Bottas revealed that Alfa Romeo’s starts had been a recurring problem throughout the pre-season, which meant he had already lined up on the grid fearing the clutch issue would rear its head again. “Honestly, I was not so confident going to the grid because 50% of the starts we’ve had in practice and testing had been bad,” Bottas said. “It’s an area we need to work on. “I just had a big wheelspin. I cooked the rear tyres, still wheelspinning on third gear, and then the first lap I was sliding around and being a bit of a sitting duck. “It’s a mechanical thing, that sometimes we have this vibration on the clutch. It happens 50% …