Xtreme Racing News

Who would have guessed? Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 struggled today. Valtteri Bottas only ran 9 laps in his his car and multi-time World Champion Lewis Hamilton didn't even complete a lap. According to Hamilton's twitter, the Brit said he found an electrical problem in his new car that was not caused by F1's newest rules involving various parts of the car. Hamilton deemed the car unsafe to drive and retired before going out. The team is loading up and leaving Spain to head back to Great Britain to fix the problem to be ready for Australia. Also from today's final session, Williams-Martini F1 did not practice after excessive damage rookie Lance Stoll caused to the car after spinning out early 2 days in a row. That led to now out of retirement man Felipe Massa, who came back following the news Bottas was going to Mercedes to replace Nico Rosberg, who retired after winning the 2016 championship, his first.