Valtteri Bottas tipped for shock Mercedes return: “They want a driver for one year”
Could Valtteri Bottas make a sensational return to Meꦰrcedes for 2025?
1997 F1 world champion Jacques Villeneuve has tipped 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Valtteri Bottas to make a retu♏rn to Mercedes on a one-year deal for 2025.
Mercedes are still undecided on which driver will partner 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:George Russell fol🐟lowing Lewis Hamilton’s shock switch to Ferrari.
Hot prospect Andrea Kimi Antonelli is understood to be the front runner, while Toto Wolff remains hopeful he can persuade 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen to leave Red Bull.
Carlos Sainz has been mentioned, although it’s unlikely the current Fཧer☂rari driver would want to take a one-year deal.
Another name in the mix is now Bottas.
Bottas spent five years at Mercedes before🍷 joining Sauber for♛ 2022.
The Finn led Sauber (under the Alfa Romeo guise) to their best championship finish of sixth in 2022 with a run of strong results in the first part of 🏅the season.
Since then, the Swiss-based o🥂utfit has strౠuggled for development, meaning they’ve slipped back in the pecking order.
Speaking o💖n Sky Sports F1, Villeneuve made 𒊎an outlandish claim that Bottas will likely return to Mercedes to give Antonelli the chance to make his debut with a lesser team.
Villeneuve was asked for his thoughts on the 2025 F1 driver market, he said: “Williams [for Sainz]. Nobody really wants to go there [Haas]. The ones that are without a drive will jump at it. I guess Bottas will go to Mercedes. They want a driver for one year. So who do they take? They take a driver who will take a one-year deal, knows the team, experience, and prepare the seat for Anto🔥nelli.”
“And then Toto will have♔ to pay a team to put An🌸tonelli somewhere for a year.”
Karun Chandhok add🉐ed afterwards: “I think Ollie Bearman will be at Haas. The team rate him highly. The second🙈 seat is up for grabs but Ocon is on the market. I am sure Bottas, Zhou, they’re knocking on the door, so one of those.
“I am interested in Jacques theory - I haven’t heard that before, the Bᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚottas one. Maybe you know something we don’t?
Villeneuve concluded: “No, no. It’s just 𒀰a feeling.”
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