It would be unfair to assume that Valtteri Bottas’s role in his new team, Mercedes, would only be to keep team-mate Lewis Hamilton on his toes. It shouldn’t come as a surprise if Bottas does to Hamilton what the latter did to Fernando Alonso 10 years ago at McLaren. It is not for nothing that they say in motorsport, ‘When you want to win
Nico Rosberg’s shock retirement from Formula One, days after winning the World Championship was quite unprecedented in the sport. The German not only walked out of a multi-million-dollar contract but also gave up one of the most prized seats on the F1 grid.
MERCEDES COMPLETELY dominated the last three seasons, winning everything in sight and no team came even remotely close to challenging the German manufacturer for the title. So, little did the team or the F1 fraternity expect that the biggest challenge to Mercedes would be from within its stable.
With almost every driver calling Mercedes in the hope of winning the seat vacated by Rosberg, the team faced a serious challenge in its preparations for a fourth straight title in 2017.
DESPITE ITS FINANCIAL muscle and having a race-winning, if not title winning, seat at its disposal, Mercedes took close to 50 days before settling on Valtteri Bottas to fill the vacant seat.
The 27-year-old Finn and Pascal Wehrlein, Mercedes’ junior driver, were the favourites for the seat from day one, as the Mercedes team boss, Toto Wolff, revealed in December.
For starters, Wolff is part of the management group of Bottas, and for the last three years, Williams has been using Mercedes engines. This meant Mercedes had all the data it needed on Bottas.
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