🇫🇮 Valtteri Bottas

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]