Valtteri Bottas is to replace the retired Formula One champion, Nico Rosberg, at Mercedes. “I am sure we are going to be very close,” the 27-year-old Bottas said at the short ceremony streamed live on the Stuttgart-based team’s website. “I am sure we are going to work as a team.”In Mercedes, Bottas joins F1’s most dominant team of recent years, having won the last three consecutive drivers’ and constructors’ titles. Massa returns to WilliamsMonday’s move was made possible after Bottas’ former team, Williams, announced that they had reached a deal to bring back one of their former drivers. Wehrlein to SauberBottas’ move to Mercedes appeared to be all but confirmed earlier in the day, when Sauber announced that the other possible candidate, 22-year-old German driver Pascal Wehrlein, would drive for the Swiss-based Sauber in 2017.

Source: Daily News Egypt January 17, 2017 13:16 UTC