Formula 1 star Bottas seals move to 'iconic' team

Finnish Formula 1 operator Valterri Bottas is acceptable to articulation Alfa Romeo successful 2022 aft signing a multi-year woody with the squad aft 5 seasons with Mercedes.

The 32-year-old has finished successful the apical 3 of the Formula 1 satellite title successful 3 of his archetypal 4 years with Mercedes, and is presently successful 3rd presumption down Red Bull's Max Verstappen and Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton successful this year's championship.

The nine-time expansive prix winner's determination to Alfa Romeo follows the status announcement of seasoned countryman Kimi Raikkonen.

"A caller section successful my racing vocation is opening: I'm excited to articulation Alfa Romeo Racing ... for 2022 and beyond for what is going to beryllium a caller situation with an iconic manufacturer," Bottas said successful an Alfa Romeo statement.

Valtteri Bottas (centre) with Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel. (Getty)

"Alfa Romeo is simply a marque that needs nary introduction, they person written immoderate large pages of Formula 1 past and it's going to beryllium an honour to correspond this marquee.

"The imaginable of the set-up successful Hinwil is wide and I americium relishing the accidental to assistance pb the squad guardant up the grid, particularly with the caller regulations successful 2022 giving the squad a accidental to marque a leap successful performance.

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"I'm grateful for the spot the squad has enactment successful maine and I cannot hold to repay their faith. I'm arsenic bare arsenic ever to contention for results and, erstwhile the clip comes, for wins.

"I cognize [Alfa Romero managing director] Fred [Vasseur] good and I americium looking guardant to getting to cognize the remainder of the squad I americium going to enactment with, gathering relationships arsenic beardown arsenic the ones I person astatine Mercedes.

Valtteri Bottas celebrates his Japanese Grand Prix win. (Getty)

"I americium arrogant of what I person achieved successful Brackley and I americium afloat focused connected finishing the occupation arsenic we combat for different satellite championship, but I americium besides looking guardant to the caller challenges that await maine adjacent year."

"He is the close operator to assistance Alfa Romeo Racing ... marque a measurement guardant towards the beforehand of the grid," Vasseur said of Bottas.

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"I'm truly looking guardant to seeing him enactment his quality to enactment for the bully of the team.

"The multi-year woody bringing him to america gives some Valtteri and the squad the stableness we request to physique our task astatine a important clip for Formula 1. We are excited for what the aboriginal holds successful store."

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