Valtteri says when he joined Mercedes Lewis “pulled me aside and said he doesn’t want to play any games and I said that I don’t either, and we shook on it”.
Valtteri says he ‘takes his hat off’ to Lewis for his commitment and adds “F1 maybe means more to him than it does for the rest of us drivers at the moment”.
Nico Rosberg responds to Lewis Hamilton’s claims that Valtteri Bottas has been his “best team-mate”, and says the Finn was better than Sergio Perez in 2021.
Valtteri says Mercedes “didn’t want to miss the opportunity” to hire George Russell for 2022, because “he’s been kind of part of the team for a long time”.
Valtteri says if he was not a team player that would have meant “less cooperation between me and Lewis” and subsequently “not as good performance as a team”.