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Valtteri Bottas believes he can win with Williams next year - a belief which persuaded the Finn to stay with the team for 2017. Greg Maddux Jersey Cubs . Bottas has raced for the Grove-based team since 2013, stepping up to a race seat after 15 outings in first practice the previous season.His best result to date is second place, which he achieved at the 2014 British and German grands prix, but the Finn believes 2017s new rules will give him the chance to go one better with Williams. I think it is a great opportunity for a team to catch up the leading teams when there is a big rule change like next year, Bottas told Sky Sports News HQ.Williams normally have been pretty good after a regulation change, they have been very quick in learning the new car and finding the latest tweaks and I believe in this team. I believe we have deserved much more than we have achieved together and I think that is possible and why I am here. Williams confirm Bottas and Stroll Lance Stroll will partner Valtteri Bottas at Williams in 2017 Bottas is thought to have been courted by Renault as they sought to revamp their 2017 line-up, but the Finn believes he has a better chance of success at Williams.I still believe we can do better than we have done in the last three years. That is why I still believe in this team and why I want to stay, he added.Now the only thing I am thinking is I want us to perform better, I want us to achieve more together and that is the only thing in my mind together. I believe we can win races together, but we really need to work hard for that and lets hope next year it is possible. After three years alongside Felipe Massa - a veteran of almost 250 races - Bottas now will find himself as the senior driver at the team as he embarks on a partnership with 18-year-old Lance Stroll, who only graduated to car racing in 2014.Senior driver sounds a bit weird, Ive just started, but there are much younger drivers now in Formula 1! said Bottas.I think he is a very talented driver, seeing his career before F1 has been very impressive, hes won every championship hes been in and has dominated F3 which is a very high-level series. He is obviously a talented racing driver, he is going to learn quickly, and as a team we are all going to help him to learn to quickly and I see no problem for him to be very quickly up to speed. Im sure we can be a good pair. New Williams driver Lance Stroll admits he may come from a wealthy background, but hes determined to prove hes good enough to drive in Formula One Can Nico Rosberg clinch the title at Interlagos? 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Dallas also Monday recalled defenceman Aaron Rome from his conditioning assignment with the Texas Stars of the American Hockey League and assigned goaltender Jack Campbell to the AHL squad. https://www.discountjerseysonline.com/yoan-aybar-jersey-red-sox-805 . -- The Oakland Raiders added a veteran presence to their young receiving group by signing free agent James Jones to a three-year contract Monday.Michele Roberts has watched basketball for as long as she can remember. It was an easy choice growing up in a home with one TV and two older brothers. When she saw an interview last year with an NBA player and noticed how passionately he talked about trying to improve his embattled union, she wanted to be more than a fan. She wanted to be involved. That got her started toward becoming the first woman to lead a North American pro sports union. Roberts was elected early Tuesday morning as executive director of the National Basketball Players Association, and the Washington trial lawyer is eager to provide the leadership it needs after a few difficult years. "They were looking for, not a man, not a woman, they were looking for a personality," Roberts said in a phone interview. "I think Im that personality and I intend to be what I have been in my entire practice, singularly devoted to this union. And thats what they were looking for. "Someone, whether it be a boy or a girl, who understood that this was their union, and they intended to run it, and they were looking for someone who appreciated that and was not going to deviate from that." Roberts received 32 of 36 votes at a meeting of players in Las Vegas, defeating tech industry CEO Dean Garfield and Dallas Mavericks CEO Terdema Ussery in the final vote. It capped a long and arduous process to replace Billy Hunter, who was ousted in February 2013. Roberts was one of the finalists initially offered to the rank-and-file during All-Star weekend in February, but the process was re-opened under another search committee at the urging of some players and agents. More than 100 players reconvened in Las Vegas this week, and after some tense moments leading up to the vote, Roberts emerged as the winner. "Obviously I wouldve preferred that it happen sooner rather than later, but I completely understood when there were questions raised about the process," Roberts said. "Frankly, I would not have wanted them to ignore those questions and not affirmatively address those concerns. I wanted the job in February, but I wanted the job where there would be no questions about the fairness or the process, so I completely endorsed the executivve committee to address these questions, and they did and now best I can tell theyre very pleased. Jose Quintana Jersey Cubs. " The players considered more than 300 candidates during their 17-month search before picking Roberts, who has been called the finest trial lawyer in Washington by "Washingtonian Magazine." She said her new job will feature straight, honest talk, just like she delivers to a jury, and strategizing, things that have made her such a successful lawyer. The search to replace Hunter, who led the NBPA from 1996 until a review of the union was critical of his business practices, leaves players with less than two years to prepare for the next potential collective bargaining talks. Either the union or the league can opt out of the current agreement in 2017. The union has struggled for years with in-fighting and a lack of organization, and the players took a significant cut in their guarantee of basketball-related income -- 57 per cent to about 50 per cent, a drop of hundreds of millions annually in salary costs -- in the contentious lockout in 2011. League revenues are on the rise, a new TV contract is set to be negotiated in 2016 and franchise valuations are skyrocketing. "As far as Im concerned, preparations for CBA negotiations started yesterday," Roberts said. "Its at the top of my list of things that Ive been instructed to begin the process of preparing for, and sure its a lot to do, but Ive never been shy about hard work and long hours, so well get it done. Well be ready." NBA Commissioner Adam Silver congratulated Roberts in a statement, saying he looked forward to working with her "to ensure the continued health and growth of our game." "The partnership between our players and teams is the backbone of the league, and we are eager to continue working with the Players Association to build this relationship," Silver said. The fallout from the lockout and the Hunter ouster left the union reeling. But it also made Roberts want to get involved, which will bring the New York native back home. "The more I thought about it," she said, "the more I thought that would be a great opportunity to do something really important." ' ' '