Valtteri Bottas Joins Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport Team For 2017

After all the rumors Now it's official. Valtteri Bottas, 27-year-old Finn, has signed the contract with Mercedes-AMG F1 team for 2017. Contract was signed today morning 16th of January 2017.

This will be good opportunity for Valtteri to drive in the top team. Everybody knows also the talent what Lewis has, so the comparison will be interesting.

2017 will be Valtteri's fifth season in F1. He drove four years for Williams F1 team making 77 starts and scoring 9 podiums.

F1 World Champion Nico Rosberg Retirement

Nico Rosberg has announced his retirement from Formula One less than one week after he won the world championship in Abu Dhapi.

Nico: "I want to take the opportunity to announce I've decided to end my Formula One career in this moment here, on Monday. To explain, ever since I started, when I was 6 years old, I had a very, very clear dream, and that was to become Formula One world champion. It was very clear in my mind, as long as I can think when I was growing up. Now I've achieved that, I've put everything into it for 25 years of racing."

Nico's father Keke Rosberg won F1 world championship in 1982 on Williams.