Valtteri Bottas news

The Mercedes driver failed to break the top five in either of Thursday's Free Practice sessions, but remains hopeful for an improvement on Saturday and Sunday. read more »

Valtteri Bottas will compete this weekend's Monaco Grand Prix wearing a Mika Hakkinen tribute F1 helmet design.  read more »

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 »