Valtteri Bottas

Bottas is a redirect to this article. For the swimmer, his ex-wife, see Emilia Bottas .

Valtteri Bottas

Nation:	Finland
Formula 1 world championship
Status:	active
Start number :	77
First start:	2013 Australian Grand Prix
Constructors
2013–2016  Williams  • 2017–2020  Mercedes
statistics
World Cup balance:	Vice World Champion ( 2019 )
Starts Victories Poles SR 146 8th 13 14th
World Cup points :	1396
Podiums :	51
Leadership laps :	551 over 2918.0 km
Status: Belgian Grand Prix, August 30, 2020

Valtteri Viktor Bottas (born August 28, 1989 in Villähde , Nastola ) is a Finnish automobile racing driver . He won the Formula 3 Masters twice, in 2009 and 2010, and was champion of the GP3 series in 2011 . He has been driving in Formula 1 since 2013 , in which he started for Mercedes in 2017 .

Career

After Bottas had his first experience in motorsport in karting from 2001 to 2006 , he switched to formula racing in 2007 . Bottas finished third in the Northern European Formula Renault with two wins . He also started in the winter series of the British Formula Renault and won three of four races there. However, Bottas did not win the championship title because he lacked the necessary license. In 2008 he competed in both the Northern European Formula Renault and the Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup . With a total of seventeen victories, Bottas won the championship titles of both racing series.

Bottas in the Formula 3 Euro Series at the Hockenheimring (2010)

In 2009 Bottas competed for the ART Grand Prix in the Formula 3 Euro Series . Although he did not win a race, at the end of the season, thanks to six second places, he finished third in the overall standings and was the best newcomer of the season. He lost to his team mate Jules Bianchi with 62 to 114 points. Bottas also won the Formula 3 Masters in Zandvoort .

In 2010 Bottas stayed at ART Grand Prix and played his second season in this championship. Bottas achieved his first victory in the Formula 3 Euro Series in the sprint race at the Norisring . With another victory, he finished third overall at the end of the season. This time as the best driver in his racing team. As in the previous year, he also won the Formula 3 Masters in Zandvoort and became the first racing driver to win this race twice. In addition, he took over the post of test and substitute driver for the Formula 1 team Williams .

In 2011 Bottas stayed with his team, which started as Lotus ART in 2011 , and competed in the GP3 series for the first time . After scoring only three points on the first four race weekends, he was on the podium six times on the following four race weekends, scored four wins and took the lead in the championship, which he held until the end of the season. With 62 to 55 points, he prevailed in the championship against his teammate James Calado . He then took part in a British Formula 3 Championship race weekend , where he scored a victory, and in a 2011 FIA Formula 3 Trophy event. He also held the position of Williams test driver again. In November Bottas completed a Formula 1 test on a circuit for the first time.

In 2012 Bottas Williams remained test driver. In this role he took part in some free trainings. He made his debut in free practice at the Malaysian Grand Prix . Bottas decided against this year to race in another series in addition to his test driver engagement.

For the 2013 season Bottas made his Formula 1 racing debut as a regular Williams driver. He achieved 14th place in Australia . At the Canadian Grand Prix is Bottas qualified for the third place. In the race, however, he fell back and finished in 14th place. In the USA , Bottas made it into the top ten on the grid again. This time he managed to finish in the top 10 and scored points for the first time with an eighth place. Bottas finished the season in 17th place overall.

Valtteri Bottas 2014 at the Williams

In 2014 Bottas got a new teammate at Williams in Felipe Massa . When the permanent Formula 1 start numbers were introduced, he chose # 77 in order to be able to use the spelling BO77AS for his name. Already at the season opener in Australia Bottas achieved his best result in Formula 1 with a fifth place. He repeated this result at the Spanish Grand Prix . At the Austrian Grand Prix , Bottas achieved his first podium finish with third place. In the following two races in Great Britain and Germany , Bottas was again on the podium in second place. In Belgium , Russia and Abu Dhabi he was again third. Bottas improved to fourth place in the world championship. With 186 to 134 points he prevailed internally against Massa.

In 2015 Bottas and Massa again formed the Williams driver duo. At the season opener in Australia , Bottas suffered a small tear in his spinal disc in qualifying. He spent one night in the hospital and was withdrawn from the race. Since then, Bottas has regularly performed special exercises for the lower back and the muscle passages there in order to avoid damage to health. He returned to the cockpit at the next race in Malaysia and finished in fifth place. In Bahrain , Bottas fought over several laps in the second half of the race against Sebastian Vettel for fourth place, in which he managed to keep Vettel behind him. At the Canadian Grand Prix , Bottas took third place, the first podium of the season. In Mexico he was also third. Bottas prevailed against Massa with 136 to 121 points and reached fifth place overall.

In 2016 Bottas completed his fourth Formula 1 season for Williams. Third place at the Canadian Grand Prix was his best result. At the Mexican Grand Prix , Bottas set a new record for the top speed of an official FIA measurement in Formula 1 with a speed of 372.5 km / h. He finished eighth in the drivers' championship.

Valtteri Bottas 2017 in a Mercedes

Bottas was signed by Mercedes for the 2017 Formula 1 World Championship . Originally he had a contract with Williams for one more season, after the resignation of Nico Rosberg he changed the racing team as his successor. At Mercedes he became a team-mate of Lewis Hamilton . At the season opener in Australia he was third. He achieved his first pole position at the Bahrain Grand Prix . He finished third in the race. Then two weeks later he won his first Grand Prix in Russia . At the Azerbaijan Grand Prix he came second after an overtaking maneuver against Lance Stroll on the start-finish straight. One race later in Austria he scored his second victory. He then finished second at the British Grand Prix and third at the Hungarian Grand Prix . In Italy he was also on the podium as second. At the following Singapore Grand Prix he came third. In Mexico and Brazil , he finished second on the podium. He won the season finale, the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix . At the end of the season he finished third overall.

In 2018 Bottas stayed with Mercedes. He finished second in Bahrain and China . At the subsequent Azerbaijan Grand Prix , Bottas fell out in the lead with a puncture in the closing stages. He achieved further second places in Spain , Canada and Germany . At the Italian Grand Prix he came third after a time penalty against Max Verstappen . In Russia , Bottas started from pole position after a team order in favor of Lewis Hamilton , just like in the subsequent race in Japan . At the end of the season he was on the fifth championship course.

In the 2019 Formula 1 World Championship , Bottas will again be at the start for Mercedes. He won the season opener in Australia . He then finished second in Bahrain and China . This was followed by another win in Azerbaijan , a second place in Spain and a third place in Monaco . He also came second in the French Grand Prix . In Austria he reached third place and second place at the subsequent Great Britain Grand Prix . He finished third at the Belgian Grand Prix and second in Italy and Russia . This was followed by a win in Japan and third place in Mexico . With another triumph, he was runner- up in the USA for the first time and again contributed to winning the designer's title for Mercedes. At the end of the season he was defeated by teammate Hamilton with 326 to 413 points. He nevertheless set a personal record for points. With four wins this season, he also improved his record of three wins.

The Finn will continue to drive for Mercedes in 2020 . As in the previous year, he won the season opener, which due to the COVID-19 pandemic did not take place in March in Australia , as originally planned , but in July in Austria . A week later , he came second in the Styrian Grand Prix, which was also held at the Red Bull Ring , and third in both Hungary and the 70th anniversary Grand Prix . This was followed by another third place in Spain and a second in Belgium . After the seventh race, he is currently third in the drivers' standings with 107 points.

Personal

Bottas was married to the Finnish swimmer Emilia Pikkarainen from September 2016 . On November 28, 2019, he announced the divorce from her.

On February 14, 2020, Valtteri Bottas announced in a social media post that he was in a relationship with Australian cyclist Tiffany Cromwell .

statistics

Career stations

2001-2006: karting 2007: Northern European Formula Renault (3rd place) 2008: Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup (champion) 2008: Northern European Formula Renault (champion) 2009 : Formula 3 Euro Series (3rd place) 2010 : Formula 3 Euro Series (3rd place) 2010 : Formula 1 (test driver)

2011 : GP3 series (champions) 2011 : British Formula 3 (17th place) 2011 : Formula 1 (test driver) 2012 : Formula 1 (test driver) 2013 : Formula 1 (17th place) 2014 : Formula 1 (4th place) 2015 : Formula 1 (5th place)

2016 : Formula 1 (8th place) 2017 : Formula 1 (3rd place) 2018 : Formula 1 (5th place) 2019 : Formula 1 (2nd place) 2020 : Formula 1

Statistics in the Formula 1 World Championship

These statistics include all the driver's participations in the Formula 1 World Championship .

Grand Prix victories

2017:  Russia  ( Sochi ) 2017:  Austria  ( Spielberg ) 2017:  Abu Dhabi  ( Yas Island )

2019:  Australia  ( Melbourne ) 2019:  Azerbaijan  ( Baku ) 2019:  Japan  ( Suzuka )

2019:  USA  ( Austin ) 2020:  Austria  (Spielberg)

general overview

Status: Belgian Grand Prix, August 30, 2020

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
2013	Williams F1 team	Williams FW35	Renault 2.4 V8	19th	-	-	-	-	-	4th	17th
2014	Williams Martini Racing	Williams FW36	Mercedes 1.6 V6 Turbo	19th	-	2	4th	-	1	186	4th
2015	Williams Martini Racing	Williams FW37	Mercedes 1.6 V6 Turbo	18th	-	-	2	-	-	136	5.
2016	Williams Martini Racing	Williams FW38	Mercedes 1.6 V6 Turbo	21st	-	-	1	-	-	85	8th.
2017	Mercedes AMG Petronas Motorsport	Mercedes F1 W08 EQ Power +	Mercedes 1.6 V6 Turbo	20th	3	6th	4th	4th	2	305	3.
2018	Mercedes AMG Petronas Motorsport	Mercedes-AMG F1 W09 EQ Power +	Mercedes 1.6 V6 Turbo	21st	-	7th	1	2	7th	247	5.
2019	Mercedes AMG Petronas Motorsport	Mercedes-AMG F1 W10 EQ Power +	Mercedes 1.6 V6 Turbo	21st	4th	7th	4th	5	3	326	2.
2020	Mercedes AMG Petronas Motorsport	Mercedes-AMG F1 W11 EQ Performance	Mercedes 1.6 V6 Turbo	7th	1	2	3	2	1	107	3.
total				146	8th	24	19th	13	14th	1396

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd	23	24
2013
	14th	11	13	14th	16	12	14th	12	16	DNF	15th	15th	13	12	17th	16	15th	8th	DNF
2014
	5	8th	8th	7th	5	DNF	7th	3	2	2	8th	3	4th	11	6th	3	5	10	3
2015
	WD	5	6th	4th	4th	14th	3	5	5	13	9	4th	5	5	12 *	DNF	3	5	13
2016
	8th	9	10	4th	5	12	3	6th	9	14th	9	9	8th	6th	DNF	5	10	16	8th	11	DNF
2017
	3	6th	3	1	DNF	4th	2	2	1	2	3	5	2	3	5	4th	5	2	2	1
2018
	8th	2	2	14 *	2	5	2	7th	DNF	4th	2	5	4th	3	4th	2	2	5	5	5	5
2019
	1	2	2	1	2	3	4th	2	3	2	DNF	8th	3	2	5	2	1	3	1	DNF	4th
2020
	1	2	3	11	3	3	2

Legend
colour	abbreviation	meaning
gold	-	victory
silver	-	2nd place
bronze	-	3rd place
green	-	Placement in the points
blue	-	Classified outside the point ranks
violet	DNF	Race not finished (did not finish)
	NC	not classified
red	DNQ	did not qualify
	DNPQ	failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify)
black	DSQ	disqualified
White	DNS	not at the start (did not start)
	WD	withdrawn
Light Blue	PO	only participated in the training (practiced only)
	TD	Friday test driver
without	DNP	did not participate in the training (did not practice)
	INJ	injured or sick
	EX	excluded
	DNA	did not arrive
	C.	Race canceled
		no participation in the World Cup
other	P / bold	Pole position
	SR / italic	Fastest race lap
	*	not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered
	()	Streak results
	underlined	Leader in the overall standings

Awards

• DHL Fastest Lap Award : 2018

Web links

Commons : Valtteri Bottas  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Valtteri Bottas' career statistics

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Young Finn becomes Williams test driver" (Motorsport-Total.com on January 29, 2010)
2. ↑ "Bottas switches to GP3 with Lotus-ART" (Motorsport-Total.com on November 23, 2010)
3. ↑ "Williams is testing Maldonado, Bottas confirms" (Motorsport-Total.com on October 25, 2010)
4. ↑ "Bottas: 'I know, I can do it even better'" (Motorsport-Total.com on November 15, 2011)
5. ^ "Formula 1 - Williams confirms Maldonado for 2012" (Motorsport-Magazin.com on December 1, 2011)
6. ↑ "Bottas 2012 exclusively Williams replacement" (Motorsport-Total.com on January 13, 2012)
7. ↑ Markus Lüttgens: "In 2013, Williams will rely on Maldonado and Bottas". Motorsport-Total.com, November 28, 2012, accessed November 28, 2012 . 
8. ↑ Petra Wiesmayer: " Starting numbers: Romain Grosjean wants the 8". Speedweek.com, January 3, 2014, accessed January 12, 2014 . 
9. ↑ Stefan Ziegler: No starting permit: injured Valtteri Bottas does not drive. Motorsport-Total.com, March 15, 2015, accessed March 15, 2015 . 
10. ^ Sven Haidinger: Valtteri Bottas: back exercises until the end of your career. Motorsport-Total.com, August 4, 2015, accessed January 1, 2016 . 
11. ↑ Gerald Dirnbeck, Roman Wittemeier: Contract extended: Massa and Bottas stay with Williams. Motorsport-Total.com, September 3, 2015, accessed September 5, 2015 . 
12. ↑ Heiko Stritzke: Not 378 km / h: Williams takes back top speed record. Motorsport-Total.com, November 15, 2016, accessed January 7, 2017 . 
13. ^ AG, Mercedes-Benz by Daimler. "Valtteri Bottas joins Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport for 2017". Accessed January 16, 2017. https://www.mercedesamgf1.com/en/mercedes-amg-f1/amg-f1-news/amg-f1-article/valtteri-bottas-joins-mercedes-amg-petronas-motorsport- for-2017 / .
14. ↑ Kuva: Suukko Kirkon portailla - Valtteri Bottas yes Emilia Pikkarainen menivät naimisiin. Ilta-Sanomat , September 10, 2016, accessed on September 11, 2016 (Finnish). 
15. ^ Formula 1: Valtteri Bottas separates from his wife Emilia. In: Sport1.de. November 28, 2019, accessed November 28, 2019 .