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Bottas takes the cake at Spa

It's a very Happy Birthday to Williams driver Valtteri Bottas, who turns 27 today while competing in the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps which he will be starting from eighth place on the grid after a software glitch hampered his qualifying session.

The team presented him with this rather nifty cake in the shape of Bottas' chosen car number for racing in Formula One.

However we suspect that he might not have been tucking into the cake this morning and will have to wait until after the end of the race. And who knows, if all goes well for the Finn then he might have even more to celebrate than his birthday come the chequered flag...

Andrew Lewin

Andrew first became a fan of Formula 1 during the time when Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill were stepping into the limelight after the era of Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell and Aryton Senna. He's been addicted ever since, and has been writing about the sport now for nearly a quarter of a century for a number of online news sites. He's also written professionally about GP2 (now Formula 2), GP3, IndyCar, World Rally Championship, MotoGP and NASCAR. In his other professional life, Andrew is a freelance writer, social media consultant, web developer/programmer, and digital specialist in the fields of accessibility, usability, IA, online communities and public sector procurement. He worked for many years in magazine production at Bauer Media, and for over a decade he was part of the digital media team at the UK government's communications department. Born and raised in Essex, Andrew currently lives and works in south-west London.