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Bottas jokes about skipping Friday practice in future

After yet more reliability problems in Friday practice, this time in Monaco, Valtteri Bottas joked about skipping the sessions altogether. Bottas came into the Monaco race weekend with high hopes, that target of a podium finish very much still on the agenda for Round 7 of the 2022 season. Such a result may still be possible, though the Finn was forced to make up for lost time for the fourth race weekend in a row when the MGU-K in his Ferrari power unit called it quits. Unable to set a lap time in the opening session, an MGU-K and gearbox replacement was needed to get Bottas out onto the track for FP2, a session fortunately free of interruptions as he went on to finish P13. Bottas was still...
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