Listen to this article Bottas parked at the side of the road at the end of the pit straight, limiting his experience of the team’s major update package to test runs in the earlier session and just one flying lap on the medium tyre in FP2. The Ferrari power unit, which was used by Bottas in the early races of the season, cannot be used again, pushing him towards grid penalties later in the year. In Imola, Bottas suffered a broken exhaust and subsequent fire in Friday qualifying, and he was forced to miss Saturday’s FP2 session while repairs were undertaken. In Miami he had a huge crash in FP1, and had to sit out the later FP2 session. Team boss Fred Vasseur said after the Florida race that Alfa needed to have a clean weekend in Barcelona in order to make best use of the update package.  The loss of valuable track time thus came as a blow, especially as the other car was shared by Robert Kubica and Guanyu Zhou, thus c …

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