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Mercedes concerned with persistent reliability issues

Mercedes motorsport boss Toto Wolff has admitted Nico Rosberg's gearbox failure has raised some concerns over the W05's reliability, as for a third race in a row they've encountered a problem on one of their cars. In Canada and Austria it was cooling, but they believe they are now on top of that issue, but were surprised to be hit with a gearbox fault which will be fully investigated. "[We have] lots of concerns," said Wolff. "The pace was really good and we understand much better what happened with our cooling issues, but then having a gearbox failure is a bit of a hit. "You wouldn't expect in 2014 having a DNF because of a gearbox breaking down. You have to look at the...
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