Valtteri Bottas has apparently not been excluded from Mercedes’ key operations, even though he is departing for Alfa Romeo in 2022. “I think the team has been good, nothing has really changed, everything is normal,” Bottas said. “I’m in every meeting that I’ve been in before in these five years,” Bottas insisted. “If there’s other meetings, I don’t know about those. It’s a message that is echoed by Mercedes’ engineering chief, Andy Shovlin, who said Bottas remains central to the team’s push for the 2021 titles. “He knows how the team works, he knows how we approach the engineering of the car.

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