Valtteri Bottas news

Mercedes says there is "a long journey ahead" to understand why its car seemingly lacked performance at pre-season testing in Bahrain last weekend. The reigning World... read more »

Mercedes is hoping it can hand Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas an easier ride for the season-opening Formula 1 grand prix after declaring its W12 a car that 'handles... read more »

Valtteri Bottas is ready for the season ahead, despite an underpromising few days of testing. read more »

Valtteri Bottas has expressed his relief at Mercedes' ability to make up for three hours of lost time across the final two days of Formula 1 pre-season testing. read more »

Valtteri Bottas still has his sights set on the 2021 Formula 1 drivers' title despite Mercedes appearing to be on the back foot in pre-season testing. read more »

The promising pace and reliability that Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez showed over the three days in Bahrain was in contrast to the difficulties that Mercedes duo Lewis... read more »

With the lead Mercedes over a second slower than Max Verstappen in pre-season testing, Valtteri Bottas has cheekily declared Mercedes must be "sandbagging". read more »

Valtteri Bottas confirms that Mercedes 2021 contender is proving to be a bit of a handful as he admits that the rear end is "snappy" and "unforgiving" read more »

Mercedes suffered setbacks on the first two days of testing at the Bahrain International Circuit, with drivers Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas losing track time to issues... read more »

Valtteri Bottas has described testing in Bahrain as "definitely the most challenging start" to a season he has experienced in five years with Mercedes. read more »

Here from the reigning champion Lewis Hamilton alongside Max Verstappen, Valtteri Bottas, Yuki Tsunoda, Nikita Mazepin, Mick Schumacher and a selection of Team Principals. For... read more »

Valtteri Bottas topped the times during the second day of official pre-event testing. read more »

Mercedes suffered setbacks on both of the first two days of running in Bahrain, leaving the team at the bottom of the mileage chart heading into the final day.Bottas was able... read more »

After a tough start to testing for Mercedes, Valtteri Bottas ended Day 2 on top with the fastest time of the day set during the afternoon session. Jump onboard with the fast... read more »

Despite a better Saturday testing session for Valtteri Bottas, he conceded that Mercedes still "need to calm the car down a bit". read more »

Valtteri Bottas says that the rear-end on Mercedes' 2021 F1 car is "quite snappy and unforgiving". read more »

Jolyon Palmer thinks Mercedes still have plenty of questions to answer despite Valtteri Bottas' improvement through the second afternoon of pre-season testing.  read more »

Valtteri Bottas has claimed the Mercedes W12 possesses "a snappy and unforgiving" rear end he believes needs calming down ahead of the season-opening Formula 1 grand... read more »

Following yesterday's setback for Mercedes, the second day of the pre-season testing saw the world champion team get back to the top with Valtteri Bottas dominating the... read more »

Valtteri Bottas set the best time on the second day of testing in Bahrain, with now only one day of testing remaining before the start of the season. read more »

Formula 1 pre-season testing continued in Bahrain as Mercedes and Valtteri Bottas made up for lost time by returning to the top of the timesheet. read more »

While Valtteri Bottas tops the timesheets on the second day of testing, the truth is that, unlike McLaren and Red Bull, Mercedes has yet to impress. read more »

Valtteri Bottas was fastest as Mercedes made progress on the second day of pre-season testing despite a spin by Lewis Hamilton. read more »

Valtteri Bottas set the pace on the second day of F1 Testing as Mercedes rebounded from their slow start in Bahrain, edging AlphaTauri, Aston Martin and McLaren in a... read more »

Following their reliability issues on the opening day, Mercedes returned to the top of the timesheets with Valtteri Bottas setting the best lap tim with a 1m30.289, followed by... read more »