Bottas disqualified from Silverstone qualifying
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Valtteri Bottas ground to a halt at the end of the first segment of qualifying for the British Grand Prix – with more problems to come for the Finn after he was disqualified from qualifying post-session for failing to provide a sufficient fuel sample.
  • Aurix@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    1 year ago

    Relevant info:

    But after the car was recovered to the pit lane, the FIA were unable to extract the stipulated one-litre fuel sample from the C43 machine, leading to Bottas being disqualified from proceedings – although the stewards have ruled that the two-time Silverstone pole-sitter can start the race in P20.

  • ymhr@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    Does this mean the reason he had to pull out in the first place was because he ran out of fuel?

    • FlayOtters@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      It had to be. There was almost nothing left in the car. I get the feeling the FIA wil be testing the car frequently for underfueling now. Looks a bit dodgy for Alfa

  • itsmikeyd@lemmy.mlMEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    Technically this breaks the rules by stating Bottas’ position, but I honestly can’t think of a reasonable way of phrasing it that wouldn’t make this obvious anyway.