News Details

Horner surprised: 'Very unusual that Mercedes are in this situation'

According to Red Bull team boss Christian Horner, reliability will play a key role in the championship. Yesterday, Mercedes announced that Valtteri Bottas is gonna use his sixth internal combustion engine, giving the Finn a five-place grid penalty. "Reliability can be decisive. You have got to be there at the end of the race. Mercedes are weighing up that the risk versus reward", Horner says on Autosport.com. He stresses that it is surprising for Mercedes to struggle with reliability. "They’ve obviously been the benchmark of reliability the last six or seven years .So it’s unusual that they are in this situation." Toto Wolff himself already admitted that Mercedes...
Full Story »
3y ago from GPBlog.com 0
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

Why Bottas only gets a five-place grid penalty

Mercedes announced during the first free practice session of the United...
3y ago from GPBlog.com

First blood to Bottas in opening US GP practice

USA Grand Prix – Mercedes' Valtteri Bottas has set the benchmark...
3y ago from FormulaSpy.com

Bottas believes Mercedes "took a small step back...

Mercedes have installed a sixth internal combustion engine (ICE) to...
3y ago from GPBlog.com

Are Mercedes taking a risk by not completely replacing...

Where Max Verstappen changed his complete engine for a new one in Russia,...
3y ago from GPBlog.com

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

Santino Ferrucci issued post-race penalty but keeps...

The NTT IndyCar Series has issued a penalty to the #14 entry of Santino...

Louis Foster reveals likely cause of scary 180MPH...

On lap 84 of Sunday’s Detroit Grand Prix, Louis Foster was involved in...

Detroit GP expected to remain downtown amid potential...

Following the conclusion of the Detroit Grand Prix, organizers have...

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Redemption for Ogier

One year on from losing victory on the final stage of Rally Italia...

Popular On GunnersToday.com

Arsenal could miss out on leading target as Saudi club...

Arsenal will sign a new striker this summer, but there is now a chance...
36m ago from CaughtOffside.com

Arsecast Extra Episode 643 – 09.06.2025

Welcome to another Arsecast Extra, the Arsenal podcast, with myself and...
1h ago from Arseblog.com

Report: Arsenal table serious contract offer to sign...

With the transfer window officially open and top clubs scrambling to...
4h ago from FreshArsenal.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.