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How moving away from Mercedes helped Bottas embrace his lighter side

Interview To news overview © XPBimages Deciding to move out the most successful Formula 1 team of all time during its peak has to go down as one of the most difficult moves a driver can make in their career. Valtteri Bottas did exactly this at the end of 2021 with Mercedes, moving aside for young team protégé George Russell and switching to Alfa Romeo to embark on a new chapter in his F1 career. The move out of a race-winning team was seen as strange for the Finn when it seemed like new opportunities were on the horizon at the beginning of a big new regulation change. "It's not really strange. Life changes and you go through the different chapters in your career," he said in...
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