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Wheel nut still stuck on Bottas' car
It's a good job Valtteri Bottas climbed out of his car to retire from the Monaco Grand Prix, for the offending wheel nut is still stuck in place. 'Sitting in the car at the pit stop, I knew it was a slow one,' said the Finn following yesterday's race, which witnessed his second DNF of the season, 'and I was calculating Sainz getting past, then Norris, and when it got to 30 seconds, I couldn't believe it.' Well almost 24 hours later the offending wheel nut is still firmly stuck in place. 'If we don't quite get the pit stop gun cleanly on the nut then it can chip away at the driving faces of the nut, we call it machining a nut,' explained James Allison. 'It's like when you take a screwdriver...
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