Valtteri Bottas’s 52-second pit stop in the Bahrain Grand Prix was caused by an issue with the wheelnut, Sauber’s head of trackside engineering Xevi Pujolar has confirmed. Bottas’s hopes of ...

Stake F1 could be in for more pit stop woes with Xevi Pujolar admitting they need more “robust” modifications after another 30s stop for Valtteri Bottas in Australia. At the start of a season ...

Valtteri Bottas was pulled over by law enforcement ... earning him a 10-second penalty that was served during the first pit stop. Then, later in the Grand Prix, he locked up at Turn Six while ...

In the end Bottas was spared some embarrassment when Mercedes erroneously fitted his tyres to Russell’s car during a VSC period. Earning Russell a penalty and another pit-stop en route to ninth ...