Valtteri Bottas looking forward to racing in Singapore

Bottas at Williams’ F1 factory

Williams driver Valtteri Bottas will be racing at the Marina Bay Street Circuit for the first time in his career this weekend. The Finnish driver, who was a reserve driver for Williams last season, will be taking help from the team’s simulator to learn the circuit before using his FW35 from Friday.

Bottas said: “I’ve never driven at Singapore in a lower category and it was one of the tracks that I didn’t drive in Friday practice last year for Williams so this will be a new challenge that I’m really looking forward to.”

“I will be doing a lot of simulator work ahead of the Grand Prix to get used to the layout because it has a lot of corners that come in quick succession. I’m normally quite fast at learning new tracks though and showed in Montreal this year that I can quickly get up to speed,” he added.

Bottas, who is one of the five rookies this season, is yet to score a point. He earned his best finish of 11th place at the Malaysian Grand Prix.