Valtteri Bottas news

Valtteri Bottas says his last day with Mercedes colleagues before moving to Alfa Romeo was "really special". read more »

Valtteri Bottas has bid an "emotional" final farewell to Mercedes ahead of his Alfa Romeo switch for the 2022 F1 season. read more »

Valtteri Bottas received a ceremonious send-off from Mercedes on Friday, as his five-season stay with the squad came to an end. Bottas joined the team in 2017 as a replacement... read more »

Lewis Hamilton and Toto Wolff made their Mercedes return following the events of Abu Dhabi, while Valtteri Bottas was there too to say goodbye. read more »

Valtteri Bottas is leaving Mercedes believing his time with the team has been 'in a way, a failure'. read more »

Valtteri Bottas ended his Mercedes career with a sixth-place finish in the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on Sunday, with the Finn now moving on to race for Alfa Romeo in 2022. read more »

Outgoing Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas believes the "messy" end to the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix was "not fair" on team-mate Lewis Hamilton. read more »

2021 gave us amazing action on the racetrack, and captivating conversations on F1 Beyond The Grid. For this special episode, Tom Clarkson has picked his favourite moments from... read more »

Valtteri Bottas was powerless to help Lewis Hamilton clinch the World Championship when it came to the crunch, says Jolyon Palmer. read more »

A tumultuous F1 season might be over but stars of the future joined the class of 2021 for the traditional end-of-year test in Abu Dhabi. read more »

Mercedes continued its record streak of constructors' championship victories by clinching an eighth title on Sunday in Abu Dhabi, ending the season 28 points clear of Red... read more »

Valtteri Bottas was "gutted" that Lewis Hamilton lost the Drivers' title, saying it feels like he "lost the championship because he lost it". read more »

Valtteri Bottas has got behind the wheel of an Alfa Romeo Formula 1 car for the first time as post-season testing began in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday.  read more »

Valtteri Bottas and Guanyu Zhou have both had their first Formula 1 runs with Alfa Romeo on Tuesday at the Yas Marina Circuit. Yas Marina is hosting two days of testing as... read more »

The two-day test at the Yas Marina Circuit will see teams complete running with young drivers, who will drive 2021 cars, and with existing F1 drivers using modified mule cars... read more »

Lewis Hamilton will be one of four drivers on the 2022 Formula 1 grid who will be absent from this week's post-season Pirelli tyre test.  read more »

Valtteri Bottas claimed he felt "like I lost the championship", after his Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton missed out on the F1 world title in dramatic fashion at... read more »

Valtteri Bottas has admitted he's "gutted" for Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton after he lost the Formula 1 drivers' title to Max Verstappen on the final lap. read more »

Mercedes has clinched Formula 1's Constructors' Championship for a record-extending eighth straight season. Lewis Hamilton ended the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in second... read more »

Bottas qualified sixth for the 2021 season finale at Yas Marina, lapping over nine-tenths of a second off pole-sitter Verstappen of Red Bull, who will start side-by-side with... read more »

Valtteri Bottas says he's prepared to "sacrifice" his own chances of a good result to help Lewis Hamilton's Formula 1 title bid against Max Verstappen. read more »

Valtteri Bottas says Mercedes "never planned" on having him slipstream Lewis Hamilton in qualifying as "usually it goes wrong" read more »

Valtteri Bottas has revealed that he had to change to an older power unit ahead of Formula 1 qualifying for the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix due to reliability concerns.  read more »

Bottas finished over nine tenths of a second off pole-sitter Max Verstappen's lap time in Q3 as Red Bull took a surprise pole position ahead of Mercedes, which had led FP2... read more »

Mercedes has reached an agreement with Alfa Romeo for Valtteri Bottas to make his debut for his new employers during post-race testing in Abu Dhabi. Formula 1 is staying on at... read more »