Marko Hanželic
Finnish racer teams Mercedes was at the time he was nut "stuck" on the axle bolt, in second place, and the event in the pits ended up costing him rankings, as he had to resign.
We are usually of the opinion that driver in such a case he can only wait helplessly for the solutions of the mechanics and not be blamed for the technical problems, a Toto wolff says that in Bottas' case, not everything is black and white: "Valtteri stopped a little too fast, which meant that the mechanic who unscrewed and screwed the wheel had to work with the air gun at a different angle than usual if he stopped in the marked area."
Monako was the latest in a series of unfortunate episodes that Bottas in races monitored this season. In the opening race v Bahrain criticized the team's strategy for him, Toto wolff but then he did not want to talk to him on the radio. V Imoli collided with Russell, after he was only in 9th place and was raced Williams wanted to overtake, on Portugal was third, even though he started with position field, V Spain however, at first he did not want to obey the team's orders and let his teammate down in front of him Hamilton.
Bottas' unfortunate stop in the pits was just the tip of the iceberg of the team’s troubles Mercedes in the principality and Toto wolff has already announced that the matter will be investigated and analyzed in detail: “We need to review the materials, the design of the nuts and bolts, and the screwing guns so that such things don’t happen to us again in the future. No matter how it hurts, we will learn something from it. We lost a few points, but the championship is still long and there are still many possibilities. ”
And another curiosity that is in modern Formula 1 we don’t see often. To help the mechanics Mercedesa namely, mechanics also came Ferrari, who tried to remove the right front wheel with a more powerful tool Bottas race car.
