After each race Valtteri Bottas makes a point of looking himself in the mirror. It isn't a metaphor for the soul searching most drivers do as they fly home on a private jet, he actually does it. Staring back at himself, he goes through the weekend's events -- good or bad -- and when he's finished analysing, he gives himself a brutally honest assessment.
"Sometimes I say, 'You're a f---ing c---! You are stupid!' and sometimes I say, 'You are the best'," he told ESPN in a typically straight-talking interview. "I just like being honest with myself.
"You can always improve and there are always excuses of all kinds in this sport, but accepting your weaknesses and strengths is what works for me.