After securing his Future with Mercedes F1 team for another year, Valtteri looks in a buoyant mood. He thanked Mercedes team, fans ,friends and family for their trust in him over his twitter handle.
“The future is secured, so now I can just focus on racing. Time to do the talking on track. Thank you everyone at MercedesAMGF1, fans, friends and family for your trust and support. Let’s go!!”
Current ongoing 2020 season is fourth year at Mercedes for Bottas, after joining the team in 2017 from Williams. With new contract, next season will be fifth year in a best ever formula 1 car & team in history of sports. Every racing driver dream about winning a championship in his career, but not all drivers will get right car and team to realize their dream.
Bottas must be lucky to get five chances to win a championship with a team who won 6 consecutive double championships. Can he win a championship for him-self? Can he topple Lewis Hamilton in a same car?
Bottas vs Lewis Hamilton Championship Battle
| Year | Lewis Championship Position | Lewis Total Points | Bottas Championship Position | Bottas Total Points |
| 2017 | 1 | 363 | 3 | 305 |
| 2018 | 1 | 408 | 5 | 247 |
| 2019 | 1 | 413 | 2 | 326 |
In his first three years with Mercedes, Bottas was outscored by Hamilton on average 102 points per year, that’s a huge margin.And he took second position in the Championship battle only once. This year, The Fin, already trailing Hamilton by 30 Points in championship standings with just four races completed.
In Current F1 season,Mercedes rivals are struggling to compete against them, fans want to see close fought championship and championship leader Hamilton wants to tighter fight at the top but only one man is equipped to do that i.e Valtteri Bottas.This should be Bottas’s best opportunity to claim his maiden title in F1.
But his teammate Hamilton think, The Fin is not capable of taking fight till the end and he wants close battle with Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc.
It’s a no-brainier for Toto Wolff and Mercedes to extend Bottas for another year, because of his performance as a team player is good enough for the them to clinch Constructors title.
But ,Total 5 years In a top team with a best car, if Bottas fails to win a Championship, “History will not be kind towards him”. Hope Valtteri will bring A+ game for reminder of the season to dethrone Hamilton and eventually stop The Brit winning his 7th championship.
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