Valtteri Bottas news

Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has questioned when Valtteri Bottas will finally "catch a break". read more »

Mercedes has finally removed the wheel nut from Valtteri Bottas' car, two days after it caused his retirement from the Monaco Grand Prix. Bottas' scheduled pit stop... read more »

If there was a competition for the world's longest Formula 1 pit stop, Mercedes would have won it at the Monaco Grand Prix.  read more »

The team released a short video clip showing a mechanic working on the car in the Brackley factory on Tuesday morning, shortly after the transporters returned.The wheel became... read more »

An exclusive and extraordinarily frank interview with Bottas is the cover feature of this month's GP Racing magazine. In the latest edition of the Flat Chat podcast, GP... read more »

Mercedes lost the lead of both F1 world championships on Sunday as Lewis Hamilton brought home its only points in seventh place, with team-mate Valtteri Bottas retiring due to... read more »

Mercedes chief strategist, James Vowles has revealed that the wheel nut issue that caused Valtteri Bottas' retirement in Monaco was due to the wheel gun being applied at... read more »

Mercedes have addressed three of their major shortfalls from the Monaco GP, explaining why Lewis Hamilton struggled all weekend, the strategy call that essentially lost the... read more »

James Vowles has stated that Lewis Hamilton was so far off Valtteri Bottas in Monaco simply because he lacked confidence.  read more »

Mercedes chief strategist James Vowles has insisted steps are being taken by the F1 team to "mitigate" the chance of repeating the pit-stop blunder that forced... read more »

Verstappen led from lights to flag in Monaco to secure his second win of the season and move into the lead of the F1 drivers' championship for the first time, capitalising... read more »

There's something that doesn't feel quite right with the way that Valtteri Bottas is being spoken about like he's already been dropped by Mercedes. read more »

Valtteri Bottas has been left to question why he is currently being plagued by bad luck in the wake of his bizarre exit from the Monaco Grand Prix. read more »

Little love is lost between Mercedes and Ferrari, but that did not stop the Scuderia trying to help their fierce rivals at the Monaco Grand Prix. read more »

But with a tight battle on its hands against Red Bull, which excels at such venues, the world champion team pulled out the stops with a suspension revamp aimed to cure its... read more »

Both Scuderia Ferrari and Mercedes endured disastrous technical issues in deciding stages of the Monaco Grand Prix weekend with Ferrari's pole-sitter Charles Leclerc... read more »

To all the world, it looked like Valtteri Bottas' exit from the Monaco Grand Prix was zero per cent his fault - but Toto Wolff disagrees. read more »

It's a good job Valtteri Bottas climbed out of his car to retire from the Monaco Grand Prix, for the offending wheel nut is still stuck in place. read more »

Mercedes will be unable to remove the front-right wheel nut from Valtteri Bottas' Monaco Grand Prix car until it returns to its UK factory this week. read more »

Mercedes has confirmed the broken wheel nut which ended Valtteri Bottas' Monaco Grand Prix is still stuck on his W12 car. read more »

After pole-sitter Charles Leclerc failed to start due to a driveshaft issue on his Ferrari, Verstappen was able to control the race from the front and record his first Monaco... read more »

Mercedes has revealed the drastic action it will need to take to finally remove a wheel from Valtteri Bottas' car. read more »

Mercedes will not be able to remove the damaged wheel nut from Valtteri Bottas' Formula 1 car until returning to its factory. read more »

Valtteri Bottas' troublesome right-front wheel will only be able to be removed once Mercedes gets its Formula 1 car back to its factory. Bottas held second to Red Bull... read more »

However, in Monaco the German bounced back in style.Having qualified eighth, Vettel crossed the line in fifth, both numbers marking his best performances of the season to... read more »