Alfa Romeo team principal Vasseur will reunite with Bottas for the 2022 season upon his move from Mercedes. Vasseur previously worked with Bottas at his ART Grand Prix squad in both Formula 3 and GP3.
Bottas won the GP3 title in 2011 with ART, putting him on course for an F1 drive with Williams in 2013.
Vasseur felt confident that his prior relationship with Bottas would help lay the foundations for working together again in F1, similar to how he had previously worked with Charles Leclerc before his successful season at Sauber in 2018.
“It’s important to have a good personal relationship, full trust, and a good understanding of the other,” Vasseur told Motorsport.com.
“I saw it with Charles in the past: when you work together in the junior series, you know the guy for a long, long time. You don’t need to speak too much to understand what he is expecting.
“The relationship that you can build in the junior series is completely different to the relationship in F1. We are much more in…
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