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Valtteri Bottas has set his sights on fighting Mercedes to establish Alfa Romeo as the ‘best of the rest’ in 2022.

After spending five seasons with Mercedes, helping the Silver Arrows to the Constructors’ title in all of those seasons, Bottas moved on to a new challenge for 2022 in the form of Alfa Romeo.

And Bottas already is finding success at the head of the midfield, having qualified P6 at the opening round in Bahrain, finishing the race in that position, before a terminal rise in engine temperature forced him to retire from the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix when another points haul was on.

Bottas’ former employer Mercedes have slipped from the conversation for wins early on in this new regulatory era, but while many expect them to latch back on to the battle at the front, theirs and Alfa Romeo’s paths may well continue to cross as Bottas is planning on pushing his new team towards P3 in the Constructors’ Championship.

“I think that should be the goal now, it looks like we’re more or less in the same place as in Bahrain, although I thought this [Jeddah] might be more difficult,” Bottas told Motorsport.com.

“I think that aspiring to be the best of the rest is a good motivation, and good goals.