Valtteri Bottas indicated his want for Cadillac to research a probably weird laptop glitch in his automotive after crashing within the last levels of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.
The Finn endured a depressing race on the Baku Metropolis Circuit, possessed with the tools to solely combat the Aston Martins on the foot of the sphere.
Bottas was set to make the chequered flag, albeit within the last place within the area of the vehicles nonetheless in race, however crashed at Flip 15, simply yards from beginning the penultimate lap.
After the race, Bottas theorised that an tour at Flip 1 earlier within the lap, and the time it took him to rejoin the circuit correct, might have induced the system on his MAC-26 to be successfully baffled.
“To begin with, on the identical lap, I had a lock-up into Flip 1, I went vast,” he defined. “Then I feel the programs obtained a bit confused, due to the additional distance.
“I had an enormous super-clip into [Turn] 15 after which, after I hit the brakes, solely the entrance brakes labored.
“It was nearly like I wasn’t harvesting anymore with the rears [tyres], so one thing [became] a bit confused there. We want to take a look at what occurred, nevertheless it was an odd one, as a result of it felt like I misplaced the rear brakes.
“It felt like I misplaced the rear harvesting.”
Bottas was intrigued sufficient that he remained on the scene to look at the automotive, which obtained him in bother with the stewards, who investigated him for being in an unsafe place.
The incident will doubtless spark additional debate in regards to the recognition – or lack of – of F1’s rules, which got here into impact this season, because of the elevated computersation of th new close to 50/50 hybrid energy items.
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