Valtteri Viktor Bottas is a Finnish racing driver currently competing in Formula One for Stake F1 Team Kick Sauber, having previously driven for Mercedes from 2017 to 2021 and Williams from 2013 to 2016. Bottas has scored 10 race wins and 67 podiums. He contributed to five Constructors' Championship wins for Mercedes, and has been Drivers' Championship runner-up twice, in 2019 and 2020.
Bottas in 2022
Bottas competing at the second round of the 2010 Formula 3 Euro Series at Hockenheim
Bottas during practice at the 2013 Malaysian Grand Prix
Bottas at the 2014 Singapore Grand Prix
Formula One drivers from Finland
There have been nine Formula One drivers from Finland who have taken part in races since the championship began in 1950. Three drivers have won the World Drivers' Championship, with Keke Rosberg being the first in 1982. Mika Häkkinen won it in 1998 and retained it in 1999, becoming the first - and so far only - Finnish double world champion. Kimi Räikkönen is the most recent Finnish champion having won the title in 2007. Finland is considered to have an unusually high amount of successful Formula One drivers for a country of its relatively small size.
Mika Häkkinen announces the end of his DTM career at the event (Stars and Cars 2007)
Valtteri Bottas 2024 season position: 20th
Keke Rosberg in the Williams FW10 in 1985
Lehto driving for Sauber at the 1993 British Grand Prix.