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,

Valtteri Bottas will return to Mercedes as a reserve driver next year after missing out on a race drive in Formula 1 in 2025.

He won't start the 2025 Formula 1 season on the grid but Valtteri Bottas remains at least involved in the sport as Mercedes' reserve driver, as well as a further-reaching but unofficial role