Valtteri Bottas news

Valtteri Bottas pays tribute to Mika Hakkinen with one-off helmet design read more »

Valtteri Bottas will compete in this weekend's Monaco Grand Prix with a crash helmet bearing Mika Hakkinen's old Formula 1 design read more »

Valtteri Bottas is confident Mercedes has found solutions to avoid a repeat performance of its 2017 struggles in Monaco this weekend.  read more »

The Finn believes he is no longer experiencing races where he is vastly off team-mate Hamilton's pace read more »

Toto Wolff knows Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas need to find a good rythem if they want a strong result in Monaco read more »

Results might not have gone Valtteri Bottas' way so far in 2018, but the Finn believes he is performing at a far higher level than he was last season. read more »

Valtteri Bottas believes he has eliminated the disappointing weekends that spoiled his first season with the Mercedes Formula 1 team in 2017 read more »

Valtteri Bottas believes he has been "more or less" hitting his targets so far this season and is happy with his pace compared to his rivals. read more »

Mercedes' Valtteri Bottas is happy with his performances, if not his results, during a mixed start to the 2018 F1 season read more »

Valtteri Bottas looks back on a successful in-season test for Mercedes in Barcelona and says that he cannot wait for the upcoming Monaco Grand Prix. read more »

Valtteri Bottas admits he hopes his next Mercedes contract is a multi-year deal, or at least runs for "the next two years." read more »

Valtteri Bottas wants to avoid another one-year deal with Mercedes and firm up his Formula 1 future for "at least" the next two seasons read more »

Valtteri Bottas' chances of finishing Sunday's Spanish Grand Prix in second place or suffering a tyre blow out were "extremely marginal" according to Mercedes. read more »

Valtteri Bottas tops the timesheets at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya as first in-season test concludes. read more »

Valtteri Bottas was the fastest man on the final day of the post-Spanish Grand Prix test, ahead of Ferrari's Antonio Giovinazzi and McLaren's Lando Norris. read more »

On the second and last day of testing at Circuit de Catalunya, Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas was fastest in another very busy day for the team. Antonio Gionivanazzi was... read more »

Mercedes finished the second day of in-season testing at the top of the timesheets, capping off a successful few days at the Circuit de Catalunya in Spain. read more »

Valtteri Bottas wrapped up testing at the Circuit de Catalunya with a fastest time of 1:16.904 to finish Wednesday's running at the top of the timesheets. read more »

Mercedes' Valtteri Bottas rounded out the first in-season F1 test of 2018 with the fastest time in Barcelona.  read more »

Valtteri Bottas ended the second day of the post-Spanish Grand Prix Formula 1 test at Barcelona fastest overall, with his lap of 1m16.904s set shortly before lunch read more »

Valtteri Bottas sets pace as Barcelona F1 test concludes read more »

Mercedes hails "incredible job" Valtteri Bottas did to manage "extremely marginal" F1 tyres en route to second in Spain.  read more »

Mercedes has revealed how close Valtteri Bottas was to not making it to the end of Sunday's Spanish Grand Prix. read more »

The Mercedes Formula 1 team has admitted its decision not to pit Valtteri Bottas for a second time in the Spanish Grand Prix was "extremely marginal" read more »

Valtteri Bottas edges out Ferrari's Antonio Giovinazzi to lead the second morning of the in-season Formula 1 test in Barcelona for Mercedes. read more »