Bottas joined Alfa Romeo for this year following a five-season stint at Mercedes, where he scored 10 race wins and helped the team win the constructors’ championship every year.
Mercedes opted to promote junior driver George Russell into the seat alongside Lewis Hamilton for 2022, leaving Bottas to agree on a multi-year deal with Alfa Romeo.
Alfa Romeo team boss Frederic Vasseur told Autosport last year he thought the move could aid Bottas’s development as he would no longer be “in the shadow” of Hamilton.
Bottas got his first chance to sample Alfa Romeo’s new C42 car in testing last week, and explained after the running he felt there was “so much to do to get better and so much more to give this sport.”
“As a driver, I think you never stop learning as long as you want to,” Bottas said.
“So of course I’m always looking at areas I can be better. It truly feels like now I can just be the best version of myself, instead of trying to be something else…
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