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Mercedes: “At first we didn’t believe the sensors on Bottas’ car”

Valtteri Bottas took a special stowaway during the Grand Prix of Emilia-Romagna: a piece Ferrari. The Finn clearly had damage to his car and problems with it, but Mercedes didn’t believe the car’s sensors.

The Grand Prix in Imola was, despite the fact that overtaking is extremely difficult on that circuit, still very exciting. At the start there were a number of touches, although these were not intense at all. Despite this presumably lost Sebastian Vettel a piece of his SF1000, which was later picked up by the Finnish driver. He carried this with him until the end of the race. The Mercedes mechanics were therefore very surprised to fish a red piece from under the car of Bottas. The driver did indicate that something was wrong, and that could also be seen in the pit box, but Bottas’ stowaway did cause a big surprise.

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“If you translate it to lap time it was seven or eight tenths per lap, but at first we couldn’t believe it was that much. We didn’t really believe the sensors because we saw that Valtteri wasn’t pushing particularly hard and in was able to do reasonable lap times when we felt it necessary for him to have a bit of a hole, “said Andrew Shovlin, Mercedes’ track engineer director. Below you can see the fragment of the Ferrari.

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