No more waiting in the wings for Bottas
@BenAndersonF1 For all the (justified) talk of Max Verstappen and Red Bull-Honda finally being in the mix to challenge Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes for the world championship, there is another man who desperately needs the momentum to swing in his direction this year. This month’s cover star, Valtteri Bottas, has entered his fifth season driving for Formula 1’s best team. He readily admits to Stuart Codling in a revealing interview (see page 32) that such a team as Mercedes expects nothing less than a title from him to justify several years of gainful employment. Bottas has come back from the brink of quitting altogether after a dreadful 2018 season, working tirelessly to reinvent himself and raise his game. Now he’s driving for his career, up against the best driver of this generation in…
