EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT F1'S VALTTERI BOTTAS

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Mercedes Benz driver Valtteri Bottas heralds from Finland and in this 13m video you'll learn more about this cool and calm 7-time F1 winner. Enjoy.
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[@KymIllman]

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[@munchmybrains]

The sip of champagne before spraying it is like a Finnish tradition for F1 😂 You can see Kimi doing it too every time he's on the podium

[@-TJ-]

5:20 Bottas was ahead of the curve.

[@MarcosCodas]

Valtteri is one of my favorite drivers, not just currently, but of all time. He seems very centered and a true gentleman. He's also overcome struggles that I can relate with, and I admire that.

[@hugonottmayr]

Your content is the most interesting non-official F1 content. I am pretty certain that it is just a matter of months until your channel blows up and gains an awful lot of subscribers.

[@ThePussukka]

2:30 explanation for the Bottas-burger cow beef patty 120g cheddar lettuce tomato red onions mayo 1 patty 6€, 2 patties 7,7€

[@KymIllman]

I was surprised to learn from his press officer about the burger.

[@HenrikJonasson]

I'm always hyped when I get a notification from you

[@kimberleylloyd9835]

Is it me or does this guy have the most beautiful eyes

[@jerrykeranen813]

That drink is finnish thing all fins do that when kimi vettel and bottas was podium they all did it :D

[@mariannaf4535]

You're spoiling us with these videos! Love Valtteri - would love to have heard what you think about his photography skills. A lot of his pictures on his instagram I think are quite good!

[@victor9]

I thought you would have one of him and James! Thought they are best friends always charting on the team radio lol.

[@jaydenlouw1948]

Valtteri it's james, wanna grab a beer

[@praveenas4675]

Yay, another video! I'm always excited when there's a new video from you. Thank you, Kym!! :) Edit: Waiting for The Iceman

[@KymIllman]

I’m glad you’re excited. They take a bit of effort to produce so they need to be well received

[@KymIllman]

I’m glad you’re excited. They take a bit of effort to produce so they need to be well received

[@cyberquasar2267]

I find Bottas so charming. I'd love to hang out with him

[@KymIllman]

I like him. Good man and even tempered

[@cyberquasar2267]

@@KymIllman I would love to meet him .

[@denniscampbell8513]

Another great video Kym thank you Valtteri has been growing on me week after week a true gentleman very professional I hope to see him give Lewis a run for his money in 2020 👍 enjoy Brazil mate

[@harogaston]

You videos are extremely well done, sincere and great shots. I'm glad I came across your channel

[@KymIllman]

Good to hear. Tell the world.

[@mattrc77]

Great stuff Kym, hope to see Alex or any of the Haas guys.

[@sjaakvkoten6061]

The best second driver ever! Valtery let Lewis by, ok sir...

[@gavinisaacs2724]

Sjaak v Koten , let the six time world champion pass , you know he is not as good as you , okay James 😂

[@gowtham0101]

Bottas' ex-wife looks like the female version of him Edit : Ex

[@blueviper3727]

😂 😂

[@edulis8724]

That's how u can tell a good couple

[@gollese]

Olympic swimmer. Now thats something!

[@gowtham0101]

@@tvssy Haha

[@gowtham0101]

@Dante The Great I thought you were joking..

[@campbellgray120]

After watching most of these “Everything You Need To Know” videos the last month or so I’ve just got too say it’s ridiculous how few subscribers you have in relation to the quality of content you’re putting out. Like many others have said you’re guaranteed to blow up, hopefully sooner rather than later! Love this channel and love the Photography skills as well!

[@KymIllman]

Appreciate your enthusiasm. Early days yet so growth will come. Had 300 subscribers 4mths ago so heading in the right direction.

[@flyallen8165]

Sorry if it’s been asked before, but since I’m new, have you ever done or will you ever do a Q & A? Would love to learn how you got into F1 and if it was a result of photography interest being the main driver or a love of F1?

[@praveenas4675]

Yes! I would love a Q&A too

[@adipatil2108]

I love this channel and your videos. Thank you Kym for such great refreshing F1 content. On a side note, since I have discovered your videos, every time I see you on TV (usually post match media sessions)I instinctively cheer your name as if I know you personally lol

[@KymIllman]

Keep cheering!!

[@cassidycharette]

Love these videos, Kym. It's so great to get these insights that most fans would otherwise never be able to access. Hope to meet you in Montreal next year!

[@KymIllman]

I will be there.

[@kvyatormaldonado92]

Alex Albon when?

[@japoske2]

I wouldn't mind waiting another year for this episode. I think the episode would be deeper

[@danielpodworski8042]

Makes it so easy to have a fellow Aussie explaining f1 !!!

[@gpbunn395]

U guys probably don't know who he is but there is this Belarusian music artist named Max Korzh and he looks exactly like him

[@ysnahdi5738]

This channel deserves 100,000 + subscribers. Quality content mate

[@rottieshepcalibre9156]

Give him time.. I only found this channel today

[@jeroenbons637]

Thank You Mr. Illman for this video. Apart from the outspoken Aussi accent of your english, the melody and the timing + the sound of your voice is extremely entertaining. It is a miracle how you succeed in making trivialities worthwhile listening to.

[@KymIllman]

I'm the miracle worker!

[@jeroenbons637]

@@KymIllman Absolutely, and you seem to be such a modest man (part joke and part truth). All nonsense aside I love most pictures on your website. It seems that you do like drama in light and color in your pictures but the pic. you choose as your favorite for the 2019 F1. season has other qualities. It is balanced not overly dramatic but the situation () is rare. Dan's tires are stationary while Max spins them round and being far back the RB car gives the picture grandiose depths. Take the RB away and you end up with a much less remarkable photo. (still good but less brilliant). Furthermore I noticed that you are somewhat of a "I follow my hart" photographer. In your F1 series you seem to like to make or have a connection with your objects, drivers that react on you 'taking their picture'. It becomes clear in your choice of object. 3000 pics. of Charles, 2500 of Pierre, 33 of Max and 2 of Checco Perez. But maybe I am biased. Maybe the "Everything you need to know.. driver profiles" colored my impression. That gin-bottle of Daniel Visser & Sons distillery came from Schiedam, a small town near Rotterdam-(not my kind of town). I am a Amsterdammer. Best greetings from Holland.

[@ddotdonrock1783]

My favorite F1 driver here in the States.

[@KymIllman]

a very calm and relaxed guy

[@sourabhms1527]

When's the IceMan coming?

[@vilzku39]

While Valtteris rank in finnish army is korpraali its offical translation is private first class (even though its not similar to nato rank of same name) and is lower than nato corporal rank. Gulp before spraying champagne was started by Kimi and followed by Bottas and somewhat Vettel too far as i know.

[@pgale]

Love your work Kym

[@RendiRetnandito29]

9:30 GO GO SQUEZEE!! -Carlos Sainz

[@myllis3807]

Porridge is quite a common breakfast in Finland commonly eaten with fresh/frozen berries or jam. For example my parents and grandparents all eat it every morning, and myself some mornings too. I don't know about elsewhere but judging by the converstation it has caused online it may not be that common breakfast in other countries.

[@KymIllman]

It’s eaten in Australia and Britain too. Mostly with hot milk

[@j6nix22]

eats mysterious gell before each race.... Must be the "Porridge" hes always talking about.

[@ionutraduvoicu1626]

I love Formula1..I love photography...your content is pure gold for me! Really appreciate your work!

[@KymIllman]

GOLD! That's high praise. thanks.

[@vrccb]

Revisiting this after 2021 Monza. I am very, very sorry for Valtteri at this moment in time.

[@Skaijjeri]

We Finns consume the most coffee in the world. It was about 14kg per person per year if I remember correctly. I can't get my day started without a cup of coffee. ☕

[@KymIllman]

And I don't drink the stuff. So I'd bring down the average if I was a Finn.

[@toine8981]

Valterri has some epic foreshadowing skills considering the hand gel

[@taijat]

Valtteri is cute. He and Kimi both drink the Champagne at the pole before spreading it around. Maybe that is a Finnish way. 🍾🤔😄

[@KymIllman]

They certainly do

[@jacklaidlaw6097]

I've caught a hankering for a Bottas Burger now.

[@miles2057]

Hey Kym, Love you work, mate. Where did you take the shots from in Melbourne of Valtteri's crash at turn 2. I'm from Melbourne and I usually base myself on the grass at turn 2 next to the Porsche pavillion.When I'm not in the Brabham stand.I actually have that crash on video as it was right in front of me. Cheers.

[@druid201]

Thanks for the insight. Looking forward to the rest of the your photos and grid knowledge videos. 8 )

[@KymIllman]

You will be most welcome to them.

[@TheFlyingmind1]

Kimi raikkonen profile is the enigma i wait for kym !!

[@KymIllman]

I need a bit more information about that man before I do that video

[@MrTheZMAI]

4:27 that's a very common thing among Finnish athletes on the podium

[@KymIllman]

Thirsty buggers.

[@gtstarwars]

Love all these driver profiles! Thanks for making them!

[@anitalewisart]

My favorite driver! Love your reporting ❤️🏎 I’ve done a lot of paintings with him. @abstractmotorsportsart

[@JalilAtlaschi]

ANOTHER great video mate. Thank you again for sharing about Valteri!

[@jayboy10thousand84]

Did anyone else think there was a fly on their screen at 10:10 😂

[@RendiRetnandito29]

the porridge story was taken out from beyond the grid when Bottas was the interviewee if anyone's wondering

[@barnstar2077]

Always enjoy your unique insight, thank you.

[@robertscott1696]

What a brilliant series of videos. Subbed.

[@sebastianlim2499]

Damn they look so good together, but that just life. Haizzz hope he finds someone again!

[@japoske2]

DMs must be flooding with "opportunities"

[@martinstrumpfer1620]

He was in a very good position to win Silverstone too but a fortunate Virtual safety car gave Lewis a free pitstop and that ended that fight where he was in the net race lead.

[@prateekgill27]

Kimi @ 03:27 😂

[@xXxRainingxNukesxXx]

I think I saw you on at the beginning of the FP1 broadcast infront of Bottas zipping up his suit was that you?

[@lucassantiago9060]

I like Bottas style very much, nice dude people go to hard on him

[@skiysi4]

You miss important sponsor... Wihuri made possible him being F1 driver they were very big sponsor in Williams and Mercedes. Company came from Finland and guy who owns it are worth over 1 000 000 000 euros

[@KymIllman]

I wish I'd spoken to you before I recorded the video.

[@woshijunfa]

love these Kym

[@milosboschen-scott3789]

Keep on bringing these kind of videos Very good again

[@KymIllman]

I’m delighted you enjoy them.

[@aidanmckay8822]

Great video mate

[@ausriusdidziokas6771]

He can only put so much pressure on Hamilton in 2020. He will be advised to not unsettle the balance in the ream because the team need the stability and within the team to do well in 2020 with Ferrari likely to challenge next year. So, they will back Hamilton, which will help keeping thing’s stable which means he and Mercedes can focus and only have the deal with the outside challenge of Ferrari which will want to have a chance at title contention.

[@ausriusdidziokas6771]

I sure Bottas will listen as he is a nice guy and knows that the team do not have the sam advantage as they did back in the early hybrid era. Bottas just need to be quick like this were he is close enough to Hamilton so that he is a good rear gunner and gets those 2nd places when Hamilton wins and that will help the teams battle with Ferrari next year.

[@ricknmoortiii4734]

You make great videos , but a little advice , try to make your videos shorter than 10 min. It will really help increase your viewership. Ortherwise , you are doing a great job. Cheers ✌️✌️.

[@Asgarniane]

I don't agree with this. When the content is as good as this video, I could watch it for half an hour and wouldn't really mind.

[@ricknmoortiii4734]

@@Asgarniane sure ! You can disagree with me . Its a free world. It was just an advise ,nothing more.it is just a youtube statistic that shorter videos get more views.

[@magicjack4076]

When will you do one about James or Darren ?

[@KymIllman]

James or Darren who?

[@deadmanbardii]

Well marriage just went out the door

[@h9rae]

Great Photos / what camera do you use normally ?

[@Northernliiights]

The porridge story, its the same for every nordic kid since the beginning of time, just that they told me i will be tall, and im standing at 168cm, so they were not wrong.

[@tambulee]

i love your features!

[@kontinnuum]

Great work

[@jean-louisleroux9321]

VB 77💪🏻💪🏻

[@sixtenfredriksson1224]

Emilia Bottas is also competing in equestrian show jumping.

[@lewiseverett]

YES KYM MY MANNNNNNNNNNNNNN

[@thatonenigeriansformula]

I like bottas more than lewis i think he is pretty humble

[@owen9997]

Nice

[@sammarkham2980]

It’s such a shame Bottas win at America was shadowed by Lewis Hamilton’s world title

[@longhaul744]

Absolutely...

[@outzie6182]

Good stuff!

[@fatherofdragons5477]

2:18 Pepsi

[@banaana1234]

...Fanni is also the second name of Emilia

[@qilyt7903]

I prefer Bottas clean shaven

[@himanshupaithane9858]

I've noticed you always have a Charles Leclerc photo in the background, all of which are beautiful! I really like your work, please never stop :)

[@himanshupaithane9858]

usually its always the one with the fork and knife xD

[@KymIllman]

I only have two portrait mode framed shots that fit in that spot and both are of Ferrari drivers.

[@KymIllman]

Seb has been there the past couple of videos.

[@himanshupaithane9858]

Yep, noticed that, they're all great pics Love your work!!

[@prateekgill27]

Valterri is the best no. 2 driver of the modern era, some of it attributable to mercedes. Hopefully, when lewis leaves mercedes, valterri becomes no. 1, annd the new guy becomes no. 2

[@jerrykeranen813]

here was like nothing you would really need to know about him :D not any stats from early years or anything :D

[@gerryd7027]

He's a solid no 2 driver but for the fans if max was in the car instead of bottas it would make for more exiting racing !

[@TheJGJR9]

that cushion looks jus like kimi😂

[@sepehrasadi5997]

It's so sad that got divorced :((((((

[@Waltteriaarto]

No emilias now

[@albiariza]

Surprised to see that VB was married before.

[@TheKarstrasse]

@6:23 Even Montoya did that with Columbian flag tear offs

[@Conservator.]

Next: Everything you need to know about Jack Plooij! 🤣

[@pradumnasaraf]

Finland Folks Are Very Humble

[@KymIllman]

And cold during winter

[@pradumnasaraf]

Kym Illman Haha!! Cold But Soothing and cunning

[@anitalewisart]

Sad news now out of the Bottas camp. 😒

[@gbedumallam]

And they hate on LH for living in Monaco.

[@ronaldkasteel3459]

they all are located in monaco for the tax

[@ronaldgrey4458]

They made X-rays from Bottas in the Hospital and couldn’t find a spine.

[@KymIllman]

that's tough

[@hazeluzzell]

Fanny is a female name in UK as well.

[@JIMBOOO05]

Valterri wondering why this one guy is stalking him

[@timomastosalo]

It's not NasTOla, it's NAStola ('NUSS-tol-lah'). All Finnish names get the stress in the beginning, like French gets in the end.

[@KymIllman]

Many thanks.

[@kevinbaxter7390]

He also banned from overtaking his teammate 😁😭

[@timomastosalo]

James it's Valtteri, I just won the race - now I guess I can overtake Lewis,

[@Max-el4tm]

Where do I get that beard from? ^^

[@KymIllman]

weeks of prep.

[@flopfloob2.043]

Which f1 drivers don’t live in Monaco I know Kimi and Sebastian but who else?

[@francescaborrelli5265]

Lando and George live in the UK, if I remember well

[@explizut3979]

We need a “Everything you need to know about Kevin Magnussen”!

[@django1123-0]

Looks like Valteri knew about the dreaded virus