Valtteri Bottas has avoided a penalty with Mercedes only needed to change the control electronics on his power unit following his Eifel GP DNF. Bottas retired at the Nurburgring when his Mercedes W11 suffered a loss of power. While initially Mercedes feared it could result in a grid penalty for the Finnish driver as the team thought it related to the MGU-H, the issue was subsequently confirmed as electrical. As such the team has changed Bottas' control electronics ahead of this weekend's Portuguese Grand Prix, opting to do the same with Lewis Hamilton's car. As a result, both of its cars will take a new control electronics for this weekend's running in Portugal. 'Valtteri's failure in...
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