Valtteri Bottas news

Hurting Bottas under big pressure, and Alonso picking fights already - get in the know before Sunday's season opener. read more »

Valtteri Bottas' shunt during qualifying for the Australian Grand Prix has left Mercedes boss Toto Wolff concerned from a psychological point of view. read more »

Valtteri Bottas is set to line up from at least P15 on the grid as his crashed W09 requires a new gearbox. read more »

Mercedes' Valtteri Bottas pushes a little too hard in the top-10 shoot-out at the 2018 Australian Grand Prix and hits the wall at the exit of Turn 2. For more F1® videos,... read more »

Valtteri Bottas will join Daniel Ricciardo in taking a grid penalty for Sunday's season-opening Australian GP after his heavy shunt in qualifying. read more »

Valtteri Bottas is set to drop a further five places down the Australian Grand Prix grid after Mercedes confirmed his qualifying crash has damaged his Formula 1 car's gearbox read more »

Valtteri Bottas admits he "pushed too hard" ahead of his Q3 crash that ended his bid to challenge for pole position in Melbourne.   read more »

Valtteri Bottas explains Australian GP qualifying crash read more »

Lewis Hamilton flew to a record-breaking pole position in Melbourne, whilst team-mate Valtteri Bottas suffered a dramatic crash in Q3. read more »

Lewis Hamilton claimed pole position for the 2018 Formula 1 season-opening Australian Grand Prix, while Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas crashed out of qualifying read more »

Lewis Hamilton has continued where he left off with an impressive run to pole position for the Australian Grand Prix. While he topped both Ferrari and Red Bull drivers in a... read more »

Lewis Hamilton is on pole position for the season-opening Australian Grand Prix, as Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas crashes heavily. read more »

Will Lewis Hamilton or Sebastian Vettel become a five-time world champion this season? Are Kimi Raikkonen or Fernando Alonso going to roll back the years? Or can Max... read more »

Mercedes topped both Friday sessions at Albert Park thanks to Lewis Hamilton with Valtteri Bottas second, then third. read more »

Valtteri Bottas recovered from technical problems in Free Practice 1 to close the gap to team-mate Lewis Hamilton. read more »

The opening round of the 2018 FIA Formula One World Championship began on Friday at the Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit as teams prepared for the Australian Grand Prix on... read more »

Kimi Raikkonen has said he was "scared to move" anywhere after Valtteri Bottas accused his fellow Finn of blocking him in second practice. read more »

Kimi Raikkonen said he was unable to see Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas as the pair narrowly avoiding a collision in Australian GP FP2.  read more »

Lewis Hamilton continued to lead the field in the second free practice session of the Australian Grand Prix weekend, but the competition did turn up the heat. Max Verstappen... read more »

Hamilton sweeps Friday's practice running in Australia by leading second practice at Albert Park ahead of Verstappen and Bottas. read more »

Valtteri Bottas wants "to win as many races as I can" and let his Mercedes future be decided by his results in the 2018 F1 season. read more »

Bottas is targeting an improved showing in Melbourne as he looks to make a strong start to his second F1 season with Mercedes.  read more »

Valtteri Bottas is to be awarded the Bandini Trophy, becoming its 25th recipient. read more »

Valtteri Bottas believes he and Mercedes must avoid dragging out contact renewal talks to prevent the process becoming "a bit disturbing" during the 2018 Formula 1 season read more »

After Mercedes struggled to work with the softer tyre compounds in testing, Valtteri Bottas hopes the team is on top of the issues heading into the Australian Grand Prix weekend. read more »