Valtteri Bottas reveals that last year another team wanted to sign him for the 2022 Formula One season besides Alfa Romeo
After five years with Mercedes, Valtteri Bottas will compete for Alfa Romeo in 2022. But the Swiss (Sauber) team, as it turned out afterwards, was not his only option to continue driving Formula 1.
“Two days after I signed with Alfa, I had a phone call,” Bottas recalls in his podcast on the Finnish platform ‘Supla’. The offer, however, was moderately attractive. He was told, “We want you and we can pay half of what Alfa pays. “
Bottas does not reveal which team wanted him at the time. But he reveals, “I said, ‘You’re a bit late there!’ I’m still happy with the way I decided. I think it’s going to be a good thing. “
With ten wins and 20 pole positions as his tally after five years at Mercedes, Bottas is broadly satisfied, although he admits: “When I joined the team in 2017, the only thing I could think about was winning the world championship. I didn’t manage to do that. But I have to look at the positives.”
And the 32-year-old can definitely think of some: “I’ve grown as a racer and as a person. I’ve learned so much. And we have achieved some really cool things together. So there are also a lot of positives, and I’m definitely taking that with me. “
