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Wolff: 'Spending years with Hamilton could put pressure on Bottas'

Valtteri Bottas will leave Mercedes at the end of 2021 after being repeatedly given a one-year contract by the German team for five seasons. Team boss Toto Wolff reveals why the Finn never got a multi-year deal from Mercedes. Finally a multi-year deal for Bottas It is the first time for Bottas to go into a Formula One season with a multi-year deal. The current Mercedes driver was told this year that Mercedes will continue with George Russell alongside Lewis Hamilton from 2022 and Bottas signed a multi-year deal with Alfa Romeo. Bottas has felt constant performance pressure through the one-year deals from before, something Wolff says is not necessarily a bad thing: "I said to Valtteri...
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