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Mercedes explain Bottas' FP2 problem!

Valtteri Bottas topped FP2 in Northamptonshire, beating his team mate by less than a tenth and setting a marker for the weekend, but he did suffer an issue that stopped him from running for around ten minutes towards the end of the session. The Finn set a time of 1:26:732, just ahead of Lewis Hamilton, but he could only manage 24 laps, ten less than his teammate, due to the issue, which was thought to be something to do with a spark plug. Read more Bottas tops FP2 as drivers struggle to handle the strong wind Hamilton's long run pace 'supreme' Mercedes' technical director James Allison played down the issue, telling Sky Sports F1: “I haven’t really heard from the engineers...
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