Valtteri Bottas

Valtteri Bottas (Born 28 August 1989) is a Finnish former racing driver. Bottas debuted in Formula 1 for Williams in 2013 and raced with the team until 2016. In 2017, he joined Mercedes, where he stayed until 2019 and served as the second driver to Lewis Hamilton. In 2020, with the introduction of Formula Earth, Bottas stayed with Mercedes and became Hamilton's biggest rival in the first ever season of the new series. He missed the title by 12 points despite winning the same races with Hamilton, with 6 each. In 2021, Bottas, despite a rough start, won 6 races and fended off the resurgent McLaren team, winning his first and only Forrmula Earth title. Bottas stayed with Mercedes for two more years, but he failed to replicate the same form he showed in 2021 and did not score any more wins in the series. In the end of the 2023 season, he announced his retirement from the sport.