Valtteri Bottas seen at the 'Drivers Parade' before the 2024 F1 Las Vegas Grand Prix (Photo via Getty Images)
Sauber F1 driver Valtteri Bottas's place in the Race Of Champions 2025 was recently confirmed. The event will take place in Sydney, Australia, and will also feature other former F1 drivers like Sebastian Vettel and Mick Schumacher.
With the 2024 F1 season nearing its end, Sauber announced that Bottas and Zhou Guanyu will leave the team after the season. This means that the Swiss-based team will go with a fresh driver lineup a year before Audi officially enters F1 with it.
Recently, Race Of Champions organizers announced that the Finnish driver will race in the 2025 edition. In an official statement on the ROC website, Valtteri Bottas has been nicknamed an "Adopted Aussie" and the statement goes on to list some of the ways in which he is connected to the country, including being in a relationship with Australian cyclist Tiffany Cromwell and doing promotional activities that included sporting a "mullet" and drinking "VB" beer.
