Valtteri Bottas
Valtteri Bottas was born in Nastola, Southern Finland Regional State Administrative Agency, Finland on August 28th, 1989 and is the Race Car Driver. At the age of 35, Valtteri Bottas biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Valtteri Viktor Bottas (born 28 August 1989) is a Finnish racing driver who competes in Formula One with Mercedes, having previously competed for Williams from 2013 to 2016.
Bottas has won seven races since joining Mercedes, three in 2017 and four in 2019.
Lewis Hamilton will continue driving for Mercedes in the coming 2020 season, as a partner.
Early life
Valtteri was born in Nastola, Finland, on August 28, 1989, to Rauno Bottas and Marianne Välimaa. His father owns a small cleaning company, and his mother is an undertaker. Heinola was educated. Bottas served in the army for a short time, but adult males in Finland are exempt from serving in the army. His military rank is lance corporal, as shown by the lance corporal.
Personal life
Bottas married Emilia Pikkarainen, a fellow Finn and an Olympic swimmer who had been dating since 2010. The two were married at St. John's Church in Helsinki. Bottas announced their resignation and divorce on November 28, 2019, citing the "challenges my work and personal life" have brought. Bottas has been in a friendship with Australian cyclist Tiffany Cromwell since February 2020.
Bottas lives in Monaco and also has a lake house in his native Finland.
Early career
Bottas's interest in motorsport was sparked at the age of six by a chance visit to a karting event that he had seen advertised at his local supermarket while shopping with his grandfather. His racing hero while growing up was compatriot Mika Häkkinen.
Bottas finished eighth in the 2005 Karting World Cup for the P.D.B. Racing Team, using a Gillard chassis and Parilla engines.
Bottas won both the 2008 Formula Renault Eurocup and the 2008 Formula Renault Northern European Cup. In doing so, he repeated the feat of Filipe Albuquerque, who won both the NEC and Eurocup in the same season, in 2006.
Bottas would have also won the 2007 Formula Renault UK Winter Series, had he been holding an MSA-registered licence for the championship. This did not stop him from competing, and he won three out of the four races in the championship.
He moved up into the Formula Three Euroseries for the 2009 season, competing for reigning champions ART Grand Prix. Despite not winning a race, Bottas set two pole positions on his way to third in the championship, edging out future BMW i Andretti Motorsport driver Alexander Sims at the final race. In June 2009, Bottas won the 2009 Masters of Formula 3, also claiming the pole position and setting the fastest lap of the race. By winning the event again in 2010, he became the first driver to win the F3 Masters title for the second time.
In 2010, Bottas was assigned test driver for the Williams Formula One team and would continue as such for the 2011 and 2012 (where he took part in 15 Friday Free Practice sessions) seasons. Also in 2011, he contested the GP3 Series, remaining with F3 squad ART. After a tough start to the season, he claimed a win in each of the last four race weekends and secured the title by winning the penultimate race ahead of his teammate and future Jaguar Racing driver James Calado.
Awards
- Sky Sports Award for Most Improved Driver 2014
- Confartigianato Motori Driver of the Year 2017
- Lorenzo Bandini Trophy 2018
- DHL Fastest Lap Award 2018
- AKK-Motorsport Driver of the Year 2019