Unlucky Bottas knows what went wrong during his pit stop in Bahrain

Valtteri Bottas had an unfortunate start to the season. The Finn was unable to keep up with teammate Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen. To make matters worse, his pit stop was also ruined making it a lonely race. Mercedes has now indicated where it went wrong.

Bottas came in on lap 30 of the race and spent a whopping ten seconds at his garage instead of the usual three seconds. A pit stop unfortunately does go wrong sometimes at Mercedes but it's bad luck for it to happen to Bottas. James Allison tells Speedweek what went wrong:

For the remainder of the race, Bottas was unable to get close to the two in front and he had no threat behind him. This left the Finn with room to make an extra pit stop to take the fastest lap.