Valtteri Bottas won ten Grands Prix for Mercedes. His 2024 season with Sauber produced no points at all, he spent 2025 as Mercedes' reserve, and in 2026 he is back on the grid with Cadillac.
It is the first season of a brand new team, and it shows in the results. Fourteen races in, Bottas's best finish is thirteenth, in China. He has failed to finish six times, more than anyone at the team, and he has not scored a point since 2023. Cadillac is the only team in the championship still at zero.
Every message he exchanged with his engineer on air this season, from the Canadian Grand Prix onward, is on



