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Briatore denies eyeing Bottas for 2025 seat

Jul.7   Flavio Briatore has lashed back at growing rumours that he has hand-picked Valtteri Bottas to return from the Formula 1 reserve bench. Mercedes reserve Bottas and his boss Toto Wolff both revealed at Silverstone that meetings with Alpine head Briatore have taken place about the 35-year-old Finn replacing the struggling Franco Colapinto in the second half of the 2025 season. 'I have no such information,' Briatore, 75, said abruptly when asked by Viaplay. 'Absolutely not,' he insisted. Some think 10-time grand prix winner Bottas would be a reliable way to help ensure Alpine does not finish this year's constructors' championship dead last. 'He is a good driver,' Briatore admitted,...
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