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2021 FIA Formula One World Championship
2021 Bahrain Grand Prix
Bahrain International Circuit
Sakhir, Bahrain
Sunday, 28 March 2021
Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas will be one of the favourites to win the
Bahrain Grand Prix title on March 28.
The Finnish driver is one of the best drivers in Formula One having finished second behind champion Lewis Hamilton last year.
Bottas, who was previously with Williams, has won nine races, three in 2017, four in 2019 and two in 2020, since joining Mercedes in 2017.
The 31-year-old finished eighth in last year's Bahrain Grand Prix and he will be hoping to win the race for the first time.
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Bottas finished the 2019 season in second place in the championship with 326 points, the most successful season of his career to date.
The Nastola-born driver recorded four wins, fifteen podium finishes, five pole positions and three fastest laps.
Bottas could only win two races in the 2020 season and he finished the campaign with 223 points compared to his teammate and champion Hamilton's 347 points.
The former Formula Renault Eurocup champion is in his final season with Mercedes as his current contract will expire at the end of the 2021 campaign.
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Bottas says he is entering the new Formula One season with a new mindset at Mercedes as he looks to start the campaign on a winning note.
“I’ve realized that a lot of that is the mental side of things,” Bottas said.
“I’m trying to be mentally at my best, trying to find the right way of approaching every single Grand Prix weekend, [finding] more of the `flow’ state.
“I need to be self-honest with everything and try to find a good way and [have a] kind of `happy head’ for every single Grand Prix. That’s the tricky part,” he added.
“There’s never been an athlete who’s been completely 100% of their performance capacity in every single event they’ve done. But how to get there more often? That’s the question.”
2020 Bahrain Grand Prix results
Winner: Lewis Hamilton - Mercedes
Runner-Up: Max Verstappen - Red Bull Racing-Honda
Third-Place: Alexander Albon - Red Bull Racing-Honda
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