Bottas calls for barrier change after big quali shunt!

Valtteri Bottas has called for a change regarding the barriers at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez after his scary crash in Q3 on Saturday. Bottas ran wide at the final corner and hit the concrete barrier, before running into the end of the TecPro barrier, in a pretty big shunt.

Bottas was ok following the crash that brought out yellow flags, spoiling the final Q3 laps of those following him, except Max Verstappen, who received a penalty for going too fast under the yellow flags.

The Finn said after qualifying: 

"I was following along the wall, and obviously at the end there was the TecPro barrier, which was a bit nasty actually, how it was at the end.

"The initial hit, I hit my knees together. I think it like was a nerve thing, so the first five minutes I did feel my right knee a little bit, but now it's normal, so it's OK.

"The last hit into the TecPro it just took my breath out a bit – I noticed I forgot the radio was on.

"Definitely, we should try and avoid those kind of TecPro things. It's a good thing, but how it starts – maybe it should start earlier or much later – but it's not ideal.

"It would have been all fine, and no pain at all if we had continued along the wall like it was. For sure we'll bring it up [with the FIA]."