Valtteri Bottas will leave the Mercedes F1 team at the end of this season. He will join Alfa Romeo alongside Guanyu Zhao in the coming 2022 season. Bottas has been part of the Silver Arrows team for the last five seasons and achieved 10 Grand Prix victories and 58 podium places. He will be replaced by Williams driver George Russell to drive alongside Hamilton for the next season.
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Lewis Hamilton called Bottas the best teammate the sport has ever seen. Now the Finn is ready to say goodbye to the team. Mercedes recently shared a tweet with a kit full of items Bottas uses on a regular basis. The kit goes to his next home, the Alfa Romeo team.
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Fans know about the Mercedes driver’s love for coffee and porridge. However, the kit contains a lot more, including the beard survival kit and Finnish candy. The team would certainly miss his presence on the team; Bottas has been an integral part of Mercedes’ dominant run for the past 5 seasons. He finished 2nd in the drivers’ standings behind Lewis Hamilton in 2019 and 2020.
“The tweet read:”Everything you need to take care of your own @ValtteriBottas exactly here, @alfaromeoracing. Coffee. Porridge. Beard survival kit. Moomin mug. Finnish sweets. TikTok book. Hot sauce. It’s all in. “
The Finn is looking forward to ending his journey with the Silver Arrows with a highlight. After the double podium in Saudi Arabia, Mercedes has a considerable advantage in the constructors’ championship. Bottas, however, has to play a role in the upcoming race for Lewis Hamilton to finish ahead of Max Verstappen in the title fight.
Mixed feelings for Bottas in the end
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After five years with the team, Bottas will say goodbye to the team after the season finale in Abu Dhabi. However, he has mixed feelings about his time on the team. “[I have] mixed feelings. When I joined the team in 2017, of course, I was only thinking of winning the drivers’ championship, ”said Bottas.
“That didn’t happen, but I have to see the positives; I’ve grown so much as a driver and as a person, we’ve learned so much as a team and really achieved some cool things together, including many, many positive things that I’ll take away with me, ”added the Finn.
Formula 1 F1 – Mexican Grand Prix – Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, Mexico City, Mexico – November 6, 2021 Valtteri Bottas of Mercedes celebrates pole position with Lewis Hamilton Pool via REUTERS / Edgard Garrido
Can Bottas deliver an impressive performance with Team Brackley one last time at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix? Let us know your predictions for the highly anticipated race.
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