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🇫🇮 Valtteri Bottas

#77
Racing driver from Finland. Formula 1, Cadillac F1 Team. Two-time champion.
Driver facts
Full name
Valtteri Bottas
Born
28 August 1989(b. 1989)
Nationality
Finland
Current team
Cadillac F1 Team
Series
Formula 1
Status
Active
Championships
22008, 2011
Career wins
21
Career podiums
99
Career starts
327
Career DNFs
32
Racer Rating
5,799
Valtteri Bottas
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Racer Rating
5,799
Rank 383 of 38,983 indexed, -314 this season
FIA Categorisation
Platinum
FIA driver categorisation
Source: fia.com
Synthesized from 1 source, updated 0h ago

Valtteri Bottas is a racing driver from Finland who competes in Formula 1 for Cadillac F1 Team. Bottas is a two-time champion (2008, 2011), with 21 wins and 99 podiums from 327 starts.[1]

A Racer Rating of 5,799 ranks Bottas 383th of 38,983 indexed drivers, on an Elo scale where the strongest reach the high 8,000s. It is built from every indexed race in the driver's file.

Sources: [1] Indexed race classifications
2026 form
Last 20 races, finish position (higher is better)
P1P5P10P20DNFITAAZESINUSAMEXBRAUSAQATUAEAUSCHNJPNUSACANMONESPAUTGBRBELHUN
Recent results
Tap a row for the full race
2026-07-26HungaroringFormula 1DNF−69
2026-07-19Circuit de Spa-FrancorchampsFormula 1P18−13
2026-07-05Silverstone CircuitFormula 1P16+16
2026-06-28Red Bull RingFormula 1DNF−73
2026-06-14Circuit de Barcelona-CatalunyaFormula 1DNF−61
Career-best drives
Ranked by rating won, which prices the opposition
Rating wonRaceSeriesFinish
+139Silverstone Circuit 2014Formula 1P2
+134Albert Park Grand Prix Circuit 2014Formula 1P5
+132Red Bull Ring 2014Formula 1P3
+131Hockenheimring 2014Formula 1P2
+120Lausitzring 2009Formula 3 Euro SeriesP2
Circuits
Rating per start against their own form that season
Raises their game
Circuit Gilles Villeneuve11 starts+32
Macau6 starts+26
Sochi Autodrom8 starts+23
Autodromo Nazionale di Monza12 starts+22
Struggles
Spa-Francorchamps4 starts-37
Hungaroring16 starts-22
Circuit de Monaco12 starts-20
Autódromo José Carlos Pace11 starts-15
Season by season
SeasonSeriesTeamRacesWinsPodiumsDNFsPolesPointsPosGain/LossRating
2026▸Formula 1Cadillac F1 Team1100500P20−3135,799
2024▸Formula 1Sauber2400200P20−4916,113
2023▸Formula 1Alfa Romeo22003010P15−6146,604
2022▸Formula 1Alfa Romeo22005047P9−1,2507,218
2021▸Formula 1Mercedes2211144219P3−4958,468
2020▸Formula 1Mercedes1721115223P2−1208,597
2019▸Formula 1Mercedes2141525326P2+2199,139
2018▸Formula 1Mercedes210822247P5+1319,284
2017▸Formula 1Mercedes2031314305P3+1,1488,578
2016▸Formula 1Williams21012085P8−2308,244
2015▸Formula 1Williams190220136P5+698,001
2014▸Formula 1Williams190610186P4+1,4207,883
2013▸Formula 1Williams1900204P17↑367−746,326
2011▸GP3 SeriesLotus ART1647010P1−1396,033
▸FIA Formula 3 EuropeanGalaxy Double R Racing100000P14+58
▸Formula 3 MacauGalaxy Double R Racing100000—+55
2010▸Formula 3 Euro SeriesART Grand Prix1728010P3+1526,060
▸Formula 3 MacauPrema Powerteam201000—+110
2009▸Formula 3 Euro SeriesART Grand Prix1706020P4↑46+4295,798
▸Formula 3 MacauART Grand Prix200000—+118
2008▸Formula Renault EurocupMotopark Academy13510070P1+3,8545,204
Recent coverage
No recent coverage found.
Head-to-head
Most-raced and strongest-beaten: times Bottas finished ahead vs behind
RivalRatingRacedAheadBehindRecord
🇬🇧 Lewis HamiltonFIA Platinum8,6382574121616%
🇲🇽 Sergio PérezFIA Platinum6,80825614511157%
🇦🇺 Daniel RicciardoFIA Platinum6,73523912411552%
🇪🇸 Carlos SainzFIA Platinum7,0042211239856%
🇳🇱 Max VerstappenFIA Platinum8,7242208313738%
🇪🇸 Fernando AlonsoFIA Platinum6,64821711110651%
🇩🇪 Nico HülkenbergFIA Platinum6,6672021237961%
🇩🇪 Sebastian VettelFIA Platinum6,8841999010945%
🇩🇰 Kevin MagnussenFIA Platinum5,5821901414974%
🇨🇦 Lance StrollFIA Platinum5,9921791186166%
🇬🇧 Lando NorrisFIA Platinum, 4× champion8,775139598042%
🇬🇧 George RussellFIA Platinum, 3× champion8,761139647546%
🇲🇨 Charles LeclercFIA Platinum, 2× champion8,665160718944%
Raced wheel-to-wheel, not as team-mates
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382🇬🇧 Dan WheldonIndyCar5,800
383🇫🇮 Valtteri BottasFormula 15,799
384🇫🇷 Sébastien Loeb24H Series5,798
385🇯🇵 Kazuki NakajimaNürburgring Langstrecken-Serie5,793
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Bottas is an established professional racing in Formula 1 for Cadillac, holding FIA Platinum grading in endurance racing. He has contested 258 starts across 13 seasons in the sport, winning 10 Grands Prix and taking 67 podiums. Before his Formula 1 career began in 2013, he won the 2008 Formula Renault Eurocup and the 2011 GP3 Series, moving through competitive single-seater categories and establishing himself as a professional-level driver in his early twenties.[1]

His record in Formula 1 places him as a consistent podium finisher and race winner, though not at the championship-winning level. He finished runner-up in the World Drivers' Championship twice, in 2019 and 2020 with Mercedes, the strongest showing of his career. Across his 258 starts he has shared grids with multiple generational talents; Lewis Hamilton, a seven-time Formula 1 champion, was his regular team-mate at Mercedes and typically finished ahead of him, while his current partnership with Sergio Pérez at Cadillac sees them closely matched. Bottas has nonetheless finished ahead of generational drivers including Lando Norris, a 2025 Formula 1 champion, on fifty occasions across their overlapping careers, and George Russell, a generational talent who has won championships in GP3 and Formula 2, forty-seven times.[2]

Sources: [1] Indexed race classifications[2] Wikipedia
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