Valtteri Bottas is coming home. The Finnish driver announced on Thursday that he was returning to Mercedes for the Formula 1 season, as the team’s reserve driver. Bottas spent five F1 seasons driving for Mercedes alongside Lewis Hamilton,

Finnish driver Valtteri Bottas will return to Mercedes next season as a reserve driver, after finishing the previous season with Sauber, which decided not to retain him. «Returning home to

Valtteri Bottas will return to Mercedes as its reserve driver for next year, the Formula 1 team said Thursday. Bottas won 10 races over five seasons at Mercedes as Lewis Hamilton’s teammate from 2017-21.