Valtteri Bottas believes his Cadillac F1 automobile’s power techniques turned “confused”, which led to his crash out of the Azerbaijan GP.
Bottas’s race in Baku ended within the Flip 15 wall within the closing laps, with race leaders George Russell and Max Verstappen passing by on the ultimate lap with the incident lined underneath yellow flags.
The incident appeared bizarre as Bottas was not travelling at high-speed, with the Finn pointing to an off earlier across the lap as a possible think about how the automobile’s power techniques had develop into “confused.”
“On the identical lap, I had a lock-up going into Flip 1 and went broad,” Bottas advised media, together with RacingNews365.
“Then I feel the techniques bought a bit confused due to the additional distance.
“I had an enormous tremendous clip into Flip 15, after which once I hit the brakes, solely the entrance brakes would work.
“It was nearly like I wasn’t harvesting anymore with the rears, so one thing bought a bit confused there.”
F1 drivers don’t really management the power deployment themselves in 2026.
Relatively, a sequence of on-board algorithms are consistently studying and evolving to finest deploy the power, requiring easy, constant inputs from the motive force so the system can ‘study’ the circuit.
