Mercedes fuel Valtteri Bottas F1 return rumours after Sauber news
꧑Mercedes fuel rumours about a possible return for Valtte🅰ri Bottas.
Mercedes have fuelled rumours 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Valtteri Bottas will retur🦹n to the team as reserve driver with a post on their social channel꧟s.
On Wednesday morning, Sauber formally announced Bottas won’t be part of their F1 driver line-up for the 2025 season.
This leaves B🃏ottas without a drive on the 2025 F🐼1 grid.
In terms of his other options, Bottas has been strongly linked with a return to Mercedes as their reserve and simulator drive▨r.
The Finn spent five years at Mercedes between 20꧂17 and 2021, winning 10 races and finishing on the podium 58 times.
Alongside Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes remained unbeaten in the F1 constrওuctors’ championship, seeing off threats from Ferrari in 2017 and 2018, and then Red Bull in 2021.
Bottas could return to Brackley as a back-up to George Russell and Andrea Kimi Antonelli🐽.
— Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team (@MercedesAMGF1)Bottas has spent three years at Sauber, guiding them to their best constructors’ fiಌnish in a decade with sixth in 2022.
Since then, the 🥂Swiss-based out𒉰fit has struggled for form.
Despite out-qualifying teammate Zhou Guanyu 20-1 in 2024, he sitsꦕ bottom of the drivers’ cha♑mpionship, without a point to his name.
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