Valtteri Bottas news

Frederic Vasseur is confident new signing Valtteri Bottas will bring 'positive energy' to Alfa Romeo during the 2022 Formula 1 season. read more »

McLaren have been reassured by Mercedes that engine reliability in 2022 should not be a concern, following some late season issues last year that resulted in grid penalties for... read more »

Former F1 world champion Mika Hakkinen believes Mercedes constantly pulled the mat from underneath Valtteri Bottas that ate away at his self-confidence. read more »

Fred Vasseur is expecting an easy relationship with Valtteri Bottas at Alfa Romeo having worked with the Finn in junior series. read more »

Valtteri Bottas says his one-year deals with Mercedes meant he never felt comfortable enough to rock the boat and create tension. read more »

George Russell hopes that good results with Mercedes in 2022 will see the team show him the same loyalty they did with Valtteri Bottas. read more »

Valtteri Bottas said he always put 100% effort into his time at Mercedes in the inter-team battle against Lewis Hamilton. read more »

Alfa Romeo team principal Vasseur will reunite with Bottas for the 2022 season upon his move from Mercedes. Vasseur previously worked with Bottas at his ART Grand Prix squad in... read more »

Valtteri Bottas has insisted he gave his all in order to overcome Lewis Hamilton during their time as Mercedes team-mates. read more »

Mika Hakkinen is happy to see Valtteri Bottas will have his future secured beyond 2022 at Alfa Romeo. read more »

For the first time in the turbo-hybrid era, Mercedes failed to win both the constructors' and drivers' titles as Max Verstappen beat Lewis Hamilton to the latter crown. read more »

Alfa Romeo announced in November that it would race with an all-new driver pairing in 2022 after signing Formula 2 graduate Guanyu Zhou to partner Valtteri Bottas, who joins... read more »

Nico Rosberg picked out race pace, wheel-to-wheel battling and overtaking as weaknesses for Valtteri Bottas against Lewis Hamilton. read more »

As Formula 1's driver market 'silly season' wound down in 2021 and this year's grid fell into place, Alfa Romeo left it late to finalise its line-up.Talks... read more »

Valtteri Bottas is to compete in the Arctic Rally for the fourth consecutive year. read more »

Bottas has joined Alfa Romeo for the 2022 season after a five-year stint with Mercedes that yielded five constructors' championship wins and saw him finish as runner-up in... read more »

Valtteri Bottas thinks the way Lewis Hamilton keeps improving as a driver is something to behold. read more »

Valtteri Bottas has revealed that he learned "many things" from Lewis Hamilton during their time together as teammates at Mercedes in Formula 1. read more »

Alfa Romeo are expecting Valtteri Bottas to serve as a good teacher for his new team-mate Guanyu Zhou. read more »

Ex-Formula 1 driver Jolyon Palmer believes Mercedes should have picked Lando Norris over George Russell for 2022. Russell, who has been part of the Mercedes junior programme... read more »

Valtteri Bottas said he "questioned" himself after an unsuccessful 2021, but retiring was never a serious prospect for him. read more »

Valtteri Bottas says he never considered severing all ties with Formula 1 following the 2021 campaign after losing his seat at Mercedes. Last year, Mercedes announced that... read more »

Valtteri Bottas has insisted he "never seriously considered" leaving F1 after departing Mercedes for Alfa Romeo. read more »

Valtteri Bottas has revealed the mental blow he suffered in being asked to play a supporting role to Lewis Hamilton for the first time at Mercedes. read more »

Following time in the Alfa Romeo simulator, Valtteri Bottas' first impression is that the 2022 cars doesn't handle entirely differently to its predecessor. read more »