SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS: Finnish Formula One driver Valtteri Bottas is set to stay at champions Mercedes next season with only small details remaining to be signed off, according to team boss Toto Wolff. That news ended speculation that the German, who would have been out of contract at the end of the season, could switch to Mercedes. Bottas, who had management links with Wolff when he was at Williams, has settled in well at Mercedes and has won two of his first 11 races with the team. Bottas has also finished on the podium in his last five races, scoring more points than any other driver over that period, with eight top-three places to date. “There is another new element in the team and it works,” Hamilton, whose relationship with Rosberg was far more intense, told reporters.

Source: New Strait Times August 27, 2017 09:45 UTC