Bottas also officially at Mercedes
“No more secrets, I will be driving the Silver Arrow in 2017,” Finn Valtteri Bottas announced on his Facebook profile on Monday. This is exactly what has been speculated about for a long time. After German Nico Rosberg announced just a few days after winning the world title that he was leaving the world of Formula 1 despite a valid contract with Mercedes, the question arose as to who would replace him. There was a lot of talk at first about Fernando Alonso, but given that he and Lewis Hamilton already shared a garage at McLaren's in the 2007 season and didn't get along very well (a bad relationship with Hamilton was the main reason the Spaniard was already after one season left Mclaren), it was expected that this tandem would not work out. There was also a lot of speculation about Pascal Wehrlein, the Mercedes