Valtteri Bottas will race for Alfa Romeo Racing in the 2022 season. After 5 successful years with the Mercedes AMG F1 Team, the Finn left after the 2021 season. He will replace Kimi Raikkonen in the Alfa Romeo as the 2007 world champion decided to retire at the end of the 2021 season.

Alfa Romeo team principal Frédéric Vasseur mentioned he is happy that Bottas will race for the Swiss team. Both of them share a good relationship as Vasseur was the team boss of ART when Bottas won his F2 championship.

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It is important to know each other deeply: Vasseur on Valtteri Bottas

As reported by Motorsport.it, the team boss of Alfa Romeo mentioned the importance of having a strong bond between him and Bottas. He also hopes that Valtteri will bring in the necessary experience to take this team forward.

“It is important to know each other deeply and have full mutual trust. I’ve seen this in the past with Charles. When you work with a rider in the minor categories, you get to know that person well and you don’t have to spend a lot of time talking to him and understanding his expectations,” said Vasseur.

“When everything is perfect, he can fly and on some weekends he was faster than Lewis. In the final part of last season, he did an incredible job and I believe that the awareness of already having a contract in his pocket and being sure of being part of a new project made him get on track with greater relaxation. I think it helped him a lot,” said the Alfa Romeo team boss on Bottas.

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Bottas will be the team leader for the first time in his career. It is most likely that the Swiss team would be languishing at the bottom of the grid. So it would be up to Bottas to take the team forward and keep their morals high in the tough times.