Porridge, coffee and a tad more facial hair then last year, Mercedes have introduced Valtteri Bottas 3.0 to the world.

Last season Bottas was dubbed Bottas 2.0 as he arrived on the Melbourne grid ready to fight team-mate Lewis Hamilton for the World title.

Bottas beat Hamilton to the Australian Grand Prix victory and when asked by Mark Webber on the podium what he had for breakfast, he simply replied: “I had some porridge.”

And so it began: Bottas 2.0 was the man fuelled by porridge, coffee and sporting a beard.

Unfortunately for the Finn his title hopes faded fast and by mid-season it was apparent that Hamilton was on course for a sixth Drivers’ title.

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