News Details

Bottas not heated over F1 tyre blanket failure

Valtteri Bottas has insisted a tyre blanket failure during opening practice for the inaugural Russian Grand Prix hasn't hurt him too much. Bottas only completed 9 laps in FP1 at the Sochi Autodrom due to the issue, but managed 33 laps in the afternoon and ended the day fifth overall on a 1 minute 40.573 seconds – just 0.031 seconds off Nico Rosberg in P4 and 0.158 seconds up on Williams team-mate Felipe Massa in seventh. “It is the first time it has happened, but I guess these things can happen,” Bottas said, when asked about it. “It didn't hurt much as a whole day because I still got a good amount of laps in during practice two. We drove a bit more in FP2 because of the earlier...
Full Story »
10y ago from Crash.net 0
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

Bottas not heated over tyre blanket failure

Valtteri Bottas has insisted a tyre blanket failure during opening...
10y ago from Crash.net

One lap tyre pace crucial - Bottas

Williams Martini Racing Valtteri Bottas says that getting tyres into...
10y ago from F1Zone.net

Practice 2 Results: 2014 Russian Grand Prix

Practice 2 Results: 2014 Russian Grand PrixPosted On 10 Oct 2014By :...
10y ago from ThisIsF1.com

Vital statistics - the Russian Grand PrixVital...

Track view. Formula One World Championship, Rd16, Russian Grand Prix,...
10y ago from Formula1.com

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

FOX acquires 33% stake in Penske Entertainment, IndyCar

Fox Corporation, parent company of broadcast company FOX Sports, has...

Colton Herta: IndyCar at Laguna Seca is a...

IndyCar’s latest visit to Laguna Seca produced rave reviews from...

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Kalle Rovanperä leads five-driver Toyota lockout in...

Wet weather greeted the competitors on Saturday morning as the longest...
15h ago from MotorsportWeek.c...

Popular On GunnersToday.com

Contact made: Romano confirms highly-rated Frenchman...

Arsenal are reportedly interested in signing the highly rated French...
1h ago from CaughtOffside.com

Exit talks brewing? Arsenal star open to move due to...

Jakub Kiwior's future at Arsenal remains uncertain as several clubs...
1h ago from CaughtOffside.com

Sunday round-up: BFG, friends reunited, Kiwior

Sunday. Day of rest. Unless you have a blog or you're a priest. It's a bit...
1h ago from Arseblog.com

Mikel Arteta has already been fine-tuning new tactics...

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has reportedly already begun adjusting his...
20h ago from CaughtOffside.com

Comments

Hottest News

Recent News


2014 GPToday.com
GPToday.com is not responsible for the news headlines and associated descriptions and images it indexes, the content of externally linked sites or the comments & postings of its users.

This website is unofficial and is not associated in any way with the Formula One group of companies. F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B.V.