Mercedes reveals details of the crash of Potas in Imola

Valtteri Bottas suffered a 30G impact in a plane crash with George Russell during the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix. The team has not yet completed the investigation of the damaged car.

The second man from Mercedes collided with Mercedes keeper Russell in the race at Imola on Sunday. Resulted in serious collapse and massive devastation. The two drivers were angry at first and blamed each other for the accident. Meanwhile, the grudges were buried and Russell apologized for what he said were “acts of overconfidence.” Mercedes was heavily criticized at Russell, but there were also concerns about the amount of damage to the W12.

In the classic Mercedes debriefing, Engineering Director Andrew Shofflin gave an update: “We love our car, but we love Valtre more than that. Fortunately, he got off really well, except for a bruise to his knee. It was a serious crash. The moment it hit the wall we saw a crash. By about 30 J. Unfortunately, the car was badly damaged. We were able to return a lot of parts to the [de thuisbasis in] United kingdom. The power unit is located at the Brixworth plant and is under close inspection. We will analyze everything and see if there are some things we can use again. However, a lot cannot be fixed and that means we have to review Portimao’s plans to get enough spare parts there. That will be next week, so we have to make sure that we can use both cars in the best way. “

Why Bottas couldn’t move on

Where teammate Lewis Hamilton competed in the lead and eventually finished second, Bottas was also busy performing so poorly that he smashed him. Finn was eighth and never advanced. According to Scheuflin, there was an obvious reason for this. “There are a number of important differences, but Valtteri in particular had a hard time overtaking the other cars on the mediators. He did not hit any heat in the tires early in the race causing him to lack grip. When Valtteri approached another car, he lost pressure in the front. His grip was less. He couldn’t really follow a distance that you could go over. “

In fact, Bottas needed the DRS, but that was unavailable when the track was wet. “Then you could go into the fan stream and gain about six-tenths to a second to go ahead. Valtteri didn’t have that at his disposal, and Lewis could later. But the most important thing was the balance of the car, it was just too little when he approached from the back of a car.” About that the fact that he could not fill the gap in another car to launch an attack. “

Watch Andrew Scheuflin’s full rundown in the video above.