🟠 Why Bottas has been driving a McLaren

Valtteri Bottas has been back behind the wheel of an F1 car. But why was it in a McLaren and not a Mercedes?

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[adsable]

*Norris or Piastri are injured* "Valtteri, it's Zakary Challen Brown".

[adityact]

Honestly Bottas looks rad in that mclaren papaya orange

[hisham_hm]

Bottas winning a race in 2025 is not something that anyone had in their bingo cards but it's suddenly no longer in the realm of the impossible

[andreabrembilla]

The race video's voices range from overexcited to ASMR😂😂😂😂

[CBACC]

Bro looks like the Lorax in the McLaren orange 🗣️🔥

[bonelesswatermelon]

2025 could see the return of HAM-BOT-VER

[Mark-s]

hope bottas gets one of the caddy seats next year

[TheUnsainted]

During the 2022 season Nyck de Vries as a Mercedes reserve driver dis the same thing only more even driving in FP1 for Aston Martin as well and of course stepping in the Williams at Monza I would guess that is part of the agreement to run with Mercedes engines

[IAmLeutrimTopalli]

Having 2 Australians at McLaren would be wicked

[DANGERTIM]

It's not like this is new right? as it was announced way back that McLaren can use Mercedes's pool of reserve drivers.

[wild_insomnia]

I'd like to see Lord Mahaveer in McLaren car !

[lookatthisnet]

Then what is the point of a reserve driver if they are not willing to fill in during testing?

[jackfrost]

Cadillac making a deal with mclaren testing for future drivers!

[Severi]

Calling Norris a generational driver is fucking wild lmfao. In a generation with Russell, Leclerc, Verstappen, Piastri etc LOL

[ambroisag]

Bottas is probably the best at working with and explaining how the car is preforming to the engineers?

[FoggyWonderland]

Bottas in the McLaren car this year would easily be world champion

[RadityaPramanaPutra]

1993: Andretti in a McLaren.
1994: Alliot in a McLaren.
1995: Mansell in a McLaren.
2005: Montoya in a McLaren.
2008: Kovalainen in a McLaren.
2013: Pérez in a McLaren.
2014: Magnussen in a McLaren.
2017: Vandoorne in a McLaren.
2021: Ricciardo in a McLaren.
2022: Herta in a McLaren.
2023: Mick in a McLaren.
2025: Bottas in a McLaren.

Absolutely cinema. 🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡

[ForburyLion]

I imagine when he returned back to Mercedes they had him give a full debrief on the McLaren, even though it's 2 years old.

[andyschwarm]

He is very special. He's not only a super driver, he's funny, wise and very likeable.

[MrDarrenp]

Bottas here channelling a Blonde Scandinavian Freddie Mercury but I cannot see him ever becoming one of the Champions of the World.