Valtteri Bottas Is Selling His Mercedes-AMG GT S to Save a Karting Circuit 12 May 2021, 13:07 UTC ·
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After cutting his teeth in karting and junior motorsport formulae, Valtteri Bottas received the offer of a lifetime from Williams to drive for the British team in 2013. Not long after that, Mercedes-AMG signed the Finn as a replacement for Nico Rosberg, who retired after snatching the drivers’ championship from Lewis Hamilton in a rather dramatic season. 18 photos
Since then, Bottas turned from a promising title challenger into a modern-day Eddie Irvine or Rubens Barrichello. Content with being second to Lewis because of team orders, Bottas also happens to underperform in the worst moments. The Emilia Romagna Grand Prix comes to mind because George Russel was breathing down his neck in a lesser car. These circumstances attracted plenty of criticism from the motorsport and general media, along with Mercedes’ style of extending Valtteri’s drive with one-year contract