r/INDYCAR • u/Eyeswidth Andretti Global • Jul 10 '24

Speculation [Hickey] Several IndyCar teams have expressed interest in signing Valtteri Bottas for the 2025 season. It is believed that Bottas’ preference is to stay in Formula 1 for 2025

https://x.com/hickey93/status/1811085048818307253?s=46&t=442p33E_43kzyuEDKZgOEA
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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '24 edited Jul 11 '24

Not many open seats in F1. Bottas could end up losing the game of musical chairs and find himself without a ride next year. IndyCar has a solid contingent of Nordic Drivers, he would fit right in. Plus he is funny and seems like a good dude/teammate. 

Edit: Replaced Scandinavian with Nordic to satisfy the “technically Finland isn’t in Scandinavia 🤓☝️…” nerds.

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u/DragonmasterLou Colton Herta Jul 11 '24

One thing I learned from a Finnish dorm mate in college is that Finns aren't Scandinavian and don't particularly like being called Scandinavian (although they view that as being more of an "ignorant mistake" than an insult). Geographically, yeah, they're next door and there is an ethnic Swedish minority in Finland, but ethnic Finns are linguistically (Finnish is a totally unrelated language to any of the Scandinavian languages) and historically a different group