Valtteri Bottas news

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 »

Bottas ran second through the opening stint of Sunday's Monaco Grand Prix, sitting five seconds behind leader Max Verstappen when he came into the pits on lap 30 to change... read more »

Toto Wolff has called for a "review of the design and material" of the Mercedes' wheel nuts after Valtteri Bottas' bizarre retirement from the Monaco Grand... read more »

Losing a podium position was bad enough, but the manner in which it was lost bordered on the farcical, and Valtteri Bottas admits it must never happen again. read more »

Mercedes say the bizarre pit-stop retirement of Valtteri Bottas at the Monaco GP was due to a damaged wheelnut on his tyre, with the Finnish driver urging his team to learn... read more »

Valtteri Bottas was left dumbfounded by the wheel nut problem that forced him into retirement from the Monaco Grand Prix and damaged his F1 title hopes. read more »

On Saturday, Norris had qualified fifth, which became fourth on the grid when Ferrari's polesitter Charles Leclerc failed to make the start.Norris chased after the... read more »

Valtteri Bottas was left rueing a "big mistake" from Mercedes during his pitstop that ultimately forced him to retire from Formula 1's Monaco Grand Prix. read more »

Valtteri Bottas says he struggled to comprehend what was happening during the disastrous pit stop failure that ended his Monaco Grand Prix. Bottas ran second to Max Verstappen... read more »