VALTTERI Bottas will find time before his Formula 1 return to make his latest appearance in the Repco Adelaide Motorsport Festival.

The former Williams, Mercedes and Alfa Romeo driver will rejoin the grid next year via Cadillac, which will debut at the 2026 world championship season-opener in Melbourne.

He’ll lead into that with an “expression demonstration session” in some classic Aussie muscle machinery, a V8-powered Holden HQ Monaro boasting in excess of 1000 horsepower.

The Monaro. Pic: Supplied

Per event communications: “The crowd can expect to see Bottas do power skids in the Monaro, billowing smoke across the event site.”

The Finn will also get behind the wheel of an F1 car of some sort, with specifics to be announced, in the South Australian capital.

The 2026 Adelaide event will take place across February 28 to March 1.