“It was a more extreme repeat of the thing we've talked about in public before,” added Allison, “which is if we don't quite get the pit stop gun cleanly on the nut, then it can chip away at the driving faces of the nut – we call it machining the nut. ![]() It will have to be ground off, get a Dremel out and painfully slice through the remnants of the wheel nut. “It's sat in our garage with the wheels still on it. “We eventually didn't get the wheel off,” laughed Allison when asked how Mercedes had removed the wheel. READ MORE: Bottas warns Mercedes need to learn from the 'big mistake' in pit stop that caused Monaco retirement But in a more extreme version of the pit stop error that cost Bottas at the Bahrain Grand Prix, an issue with the wheel gun left Mercedes unable to change the Finn’s front right tyre – a tyre that was still on the car as Mercedes packed up after a lacklustre Monaco Grand Prix, with Bottas left with no option but to retire as team mate Lewis Hamilton finished an unhappy P7. ![]() Wondering how Mercedes eventually got the wheel off Valtteri Bottas’ car after his disastrous Monaco Grand Prix-ending pit stop? The answer is they didn’t – with Mercedes’ Technical Director James Allison revealing after the race that the team would need to hack the wheel off back at their UK factory.īottas was running in a comfortable P2 at Monte Carlo when Mercedes called him in for his first stop on Lap 30.
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