{"id":52610,"date":"2025-04-26T17:02:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T17:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/52610\/"},"modified":"2025-04-26T17:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T17:02:08","slug":"mercedes-f1-star-valtteri-bottas-back-on-podium-as-finn-overcomes-huge-racing-setback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/52610\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes F1 star Valtteri Bottas BACK on podium as Finn overcomes huge racing setback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Valtteri Bottas has returned to the podium of a sporting event once again, although not in his role as <a title=\"Mercedes&#039; reserve driver\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gpfans.com\/en\/f1-news\/1041935\/mercedes-f1-valtteri-bottas-reserve-driver-return\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mercedes&#8217; reserve driver<\/a>. &#13;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\nThe popular Finn has been enjoying a late <b><a title=\"career renaissance on two wheels\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gpfans.com\/en\/f1-news\/1019190\/f1-valtteri-bottas-sauber-qualifies-world-championship-race-cycling-south-africa-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">career renaissance on two wheels<\/a><\/b>, having started dating Australian cyclist Tiffany Cromwell in 2020.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\nBottas was in competition again recently, competing in the AusCycling Gravel National Championships and taking third place in his category despite a number of setbacks. &#13;<\/p>\n<p>\nThe veteran racer <a title=\"suffered three punctures\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DI6UFRtSrfJ\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">suffered three punctures<\/a> during his race, but managed to recover to take an impressive third place in the men&#8217;s Masters 2 category in spite of that. &#13;<\/p>\n<p>Bottas&#8217; partner takes impressive crown<\/p>\n<p>\nBottas wasn&#8217;t the most successful member of his household on the day though, with Cromwell winning the women&#8217;s category to become her country&#8217;s national champion. &#13;<\/p>\n<p>\nThe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpfans.com\/en\/f1-teams\/mercedes-amg-petronas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mercedes<\/a> star took to his personal Instagram page to congratulate his partner and share the struggles he endured, writing in a caption on his story: &#8220;Tiffany Cromwell is Australian champ on Gravel!&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;With three punctures I still managed to somehow get to third [bronze medal emoji] in my age group.&#8221;&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\nIt&#8217;s unlikely that the veteran driver returns to the grid this season, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpfans.com\/en\/f1-drivers\/george-russell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">George Russell<\/a> and Kimi Antonelli looking reasonably entrenched in the team&#8217;s seats, but there are some hopes that Bottas can worm his way back into a racing seat with Cadillac in 2026.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\n<b>READ MORE:<\/b> <a title=\"Lewis Hamilton returns to London as Ferrari crisis deepens&#039;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gpfans.com\/en\/f1-news\/1047959\/lewis-hamilton-f1-2025-london-return-fanatics-shop-opening\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lewis Hamilton returns to London as Ferrari crisis deepens<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Related\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>                                        <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Valtteri Bottas has returned to the podium of a sporting event once again, although not in his role&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[8051,4199,16204,707,4200,4277,12,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-52610","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-chris-deeley","9":"tag-f1","10":"tag-f1-news-gossip","11":"tag-formula-1","12":"tag-formula1","13":"tag-gpfans","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114405346155366972","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52610","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=52610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}