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Bottas completes amazing week in Arctic Rally

Bottas completes ‘amazing week’ in Arctic Rally PlanetF1 17/01/2021 © Getty Images Valtteri Bottas during the Arctic Rally shakedown Valtteri Bottas completed an “amazing week” by finishing sixth in the Arctic Lapland Rally – his third straight top-10 result in that event. The Mercedes F1 driver is naturally a big rallying fan, hailing from Finland, and this is the third consecutive year in which he has taken part in an event held within the Arctic Circle. Eighth after the first day of action when he trailed leader Juho Hanninen by just under two minutes, Bottas, driving a Citroen DS3 World Rally Car, had improved his placing by two positions at the end of the seven timed stages – reduced from the scheduled 10.

Bottas has challenging day one of Arctic Rally

Bottas has ‘challenging’ day one of Arctic Rally PlanetF1 16/01/2021 © Getty Images Valtteri Bottas, 2021 Arctic Rally shakedown Valtteri Bottas was on course to improve upon last year’s result after day one of the Arctic Lapland Rally, sitting eighth in the overall standings. The Mercedes F1 driver is understandably a big rallying fan, being from Finland, and this is the third consecutive year in which he has taken part in this event which is inside the Arctic Circle. Bottas finished fifth in 2019, when he recorded a stage win, and ninth last year. He had four more stages to tackle to try and work his way up the order.

Wolff wants Bottas poor form put into context

Wolff wants Bottas’ poor form put into context PlanetF1 8/01/2021 © Getty Images Valtteri Bottas PA Toto Wolff believes Mercedes must avoid knee-jerk reactions to driver performances after Valtteri Bottas’ roller-coaster season in 2020. There were more downs than ups for Bottas last year, the undoubted highlights being his victories in the Austrian and Russian Grands Prix. But after having his contract with the team extended, the Finn was unable to sustain a World Championship challenge to his colleague Lewis Hamilton and his form became more ragged as the campaign went on. Although it was certainly not always his own fault, and he endured some bad luck, Bottas finished no higher than P8 in four of the next six races straight after his Russian success.

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