Lewis Hamilton reveals why Valtteri Bottas is different to previous team-mates

Lewis Hamilton has revealed how Valtteri Bottas differs from the rest of his team-mates in F1. The duo will end their five-year partnership at Mercedes when the current season ends with the Finn moving to Alfa Romeo, making way for George Russell to step up to the Silver Arrows. Speaking to Sky Italia, Hamilton said:

"I made a comment recently about my current team-mate, this is the first time I have had a team-mate that we actually really, in our engineering room, really communicate.   "There has never any hiding of secrets between us. We are both trying to better each other. In the end, we want to beat each other but we want to help each other be the better version of themselves and I have never known that with any other driver before."

Russell will be Hamilton's sixth team-mate in F1 after Fernando Alonso, Heikki Kovalainen, Jenson Button, Nico Rosberg and Bottas. Source - GP Fans Follow us on Twitter!

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