News Details

Bottas drops five spots for gearbox change

Valtteri Bottas' difficult Australian Grand Prix weekend has been compounded by a five-place grid penalty for a gearbox change on his Williams overnight. The Finn was already on the back foot coming into the 2016 Formula 1 World Championship opener after a disappointing qualifying session left him down in 11th place, well behind his sixth place team-mate Felipe Massa. However, a problem was diagnosed with his FW38's gearbox overnight, necessitating a change that has landed him a drop of five places on the grid, leaving him 16th. As a result, Fernando Alonso and Jenson Button rise to 11th and 12th, with Jolyon Palmer, Kevin Magnussen and Marcus Ericsson each ascending to 13th, 14th and 15th...
Full Story »
9y ago from Crash.net 0
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

Haryanto slapped with three-place grid penalty

Rio Haryanto's Formula 1 career is not off to the best start after he was...
9y ago from PlanetF1.com

Haryanto receives grid penalty following pit-lane...

Manor debutant Rio Haryanto has been struck with a three-place grid...
9y ago from GrandPrixTimes.com

Bottas feeling more complete as a driver

 XPB Images As he enters his fourth season as a Grand Prix...
9y ago from F1i.com

Haryanto hit with three-place grid penalty

– Rio Haryanto has been given a three-place grid penalty for his...
9y ago from GPUpdate.net

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

Alex Marquez leads the way in second Jerez MotoGP...

Alex Marquez completed Friday topping the charts in both MotoGP practice...
16h ago from MotorsportWeek.c...

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

Alex Palou tops busy final Indy 500 test day

The NTT IndyCar Series wrapped up a two day test session on Thursday,...

Larson, Sato crash in high-boost Indy 500 test session

The second day of IndyCar’s Indy 500 open test opened with qualifying...

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Kalle in command of Rally Islas Canarias

Kalle Rovanperä and Jonne Halttunen dominated the opening day of Rally...
12h ago from MotorsportWeek.c...

Popular On GunnersToday.com

Arsenal line up £55 million move for Barcelona star...

Arsenal are planning to offer £55m for the services of Barcelona's Jules...
1h ago from SportsKeeda.com

Real Madrid Transfer News Roundup: Los Blancos suffer...

Real Madrid travel to the Estadio de La Cartuja on Saturday, April 26, to...
3h ago from SportsKeeda.com

Andoni Iraola addresses Dean Huijsen transfer rumours...

Bournemouth head coach Andoni Iraola reveals how Dean Huijsen is...
10h ago from SportsMole.co.uk

Papers: Arsenal lining up £55m bid for Barcelona...

The top stories and transfer rumours from Saturday's newspapers...
10h ago from SkySports.com

Comments

Hottest News

Recent News


2014 GPToday.com
GPToday.com is not responsible for the news headlines and associated descriptions and images it indexes, the content of externally linked sites or the comments & postings of its users.

This website is unofficial and is not associated in any way with the Formula One group of companies. F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B.V.