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Mercedes unable to remove wheel from Bottas' car
Article To news overview The wheel nut which forced Valtteri Bottas to retire from the Monaco GP is still stuck to his car according to Mercedes technical director James Allison. Bottas pitted on lap 29 but the team were unable to remove the front-right tyre which almost certainly cost Bottas a spot on the podium. “We didn’t get the wheel off,” Allison told RacingNews365.com and other select members of the press. “It’s sat in our garage with the wheel stand on it. “It’ll have to be ground off. Get a Dremel out and painfully slice through the remnants of the wheel nut. We’ll do this back at the factory.” Bottas was stunned at the incident which he described as hugely...
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