Valtteri Bottas is shaping up as the star player in this year's ‘silly season'. The annual round of speculation and counter-rumour regarding the movement of drivers within the paddock has got off to an early start, as talk of the Finn's potential switch from Williams to Ferrari will just not go away. Reporters are even now trying to guess the precise mid-year date of the ‘option' on Bottas' current contract, and whether it corresponds with Ferrari's simultaneous deliberations over keeping Kimi Raikkonen in 2016. 'It has to be quite flattering for us, hasn't it?' smiled Williams deputy Claire Williams in Monaco. 'Valtteri has an agreement with us,' she told the Finnish...
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