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Is Bottas a future F1 world champion?

September 22, 2014 (Katie Grimmett).- When Valtteri Bottas was handed his first full-time Williams F1 drive in 2013, he was somewhat of an unknown. Indeed, all rookies tend to be. Some knew him as the team’s test driver the previous year, others for his dominant GP2 season in 2011 and some fans, not at all. Even last year, when the Finn fired up his Williams FW35 in anger, his potential was not quantifiable. Only one thing was clear, the silence of the unfulfilling challenger was evident; it was one of the worst cars in their history. The V8 engine era, and the regulations which appeared alongside it, were not kind to the largely independent team and their limited resources but with a...
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