The power unit in Valtteri Bottas’ Mercedes Formula 1 car was largely “damaged beyond repair” in his massive race-ending crash with Geoꦰrge Russell at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix.

Bottౠas and Williams driver Russell came together at high-speed on the run to the Tamburello chicane while fighting over ninth place at last weekend’s race at Imola, resulting in a violent double impact with the barriers that registered at aro𝔍und 30G.

While Russell and Bottas walked away from the incident unscathed aside from a bruised knee for the latter, 💦the same could not be said for either of their cars.

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The extent of the damage sustained to Bottas’ W12 has now been revealed by Mercedes’ trackside engineering director Andre🅷w Shovl🍨in.

“As much as we like our car, we like Valtteri more and h🉐appily he was able to come out of that with not much more th𒀰an a bruised knee from the impact,” Shovlin said.

“But it was a big c𝓀rash, we were seeing around 30G at points in his trip around the walls and the track. Unfortunately, the car has not done quite so well. There is a fair amount of d🗹amage to that.

“We have managed to bring a lot of it back to the UK, we got the powꦕer unit at Brixworth where that's being checked and inspected carefully and we will just pick through th🌠is and some of the bits we might be able to salvage. Unfortunately, quite a lot of it is damaged beyond repair.”

Shovlin said that Mercedes’ ꧂focus is ensurinཧg it now has enough parts for the upcoming Portuguese Grand Prix on 2 May.

He added: “We are just looking at a logistics plan to try and be ab▨le to get sufficient parts to Portimão, which is the week after next, to make sure we can run both cars in the cꦆorrect spec.”