{"id":122528,"date":"2025-05-22T12:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T12:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/122528\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T12:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T12:37:09","slug":"why-bottas-believes-his-f1-reserve-driver-role-is-the-fastest-route-back-to-a-race-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/122528\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Bottas believes his F1 reserve driver role is the fastest route back to a race seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time since 2012, Formula 1 is going racing this season without one of its great modern characters: the eclectic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/driver\/valtteri-bottas\/829609\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Valtteri Bottas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old Finn missed out on prolonging his stay at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/team\/sauber\/36476\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sauber<\/a> ahead of its transition to Audi for 2026. But, now back at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/team\/mercedes\/36495\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mercedes<\/a> as the team\u2019s reserve driver for 2025 \u2013 a role he also jointly holds for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/team\/mclaren\/36473\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">McLaren<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/team\/williams\/36474\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Williams<\/a> as part of their engine supply deals \u2013 Bottas vows he\u2019s not done with grand prix racing yet.<\/p>\n<p>In this article<\/p>\n<p>    Formula 1\n<\/p>\n<p>    Valtteri Bottas\n<\/p>\n<p>    McLaren\n<\/p>\n<p>    Williams\n<\/p>\n<p>    Mercedes\n<\/p>\n<p>Be the first to know and subscribe for real-time news email updates on these topics<\/p>\n<p>    Subscribe to news alerts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the first time since 2012, Formula 1 is going racing this season without one of its great&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[4199,707,4200,1710,4859,79,16,15,54511,4857],"class_list":{"0":"post-122528","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-f1","9":"tag-formula-1","10":"tag-formula1","11":"tag-mclaren","12":"tag-mercedes","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-valtteri-bottas","17":"tag-williams"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114551524199148791","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}