Valtt🐲eri Bottas said Williams is unsure what cauﷺsed the damage to his engine cover which left a big hole in the bodywork during FP2 for the British Grand Prix.

Having sat out the first session, Bottas had completed the most laps of any driv൩er in second practice when something appeared to explode under the engine cover as he accelerated down the Hangar Straight. Speaking immediately after the session,💦 Bottas said there was no obvious cause of the damage.

"It will be investigated so that we are sure it won't�꧑� happen in the future," Bottas said. "I don't know [what caused it] yet, we will have to see but it just came off really."

And Bottas was encouraged wi🀅th the prog♑ress he was able to make during FP2 after missing the morning session.

"Not bad for just one session. It was quite tricky conditions today for just one session and it's not an easy place to set up the car so there is still🌸 work to do for tomorrow. It looks like Ferrari and Red Bull are a bit closer than in Austria so I think it's goi🅰ng to be really tight. Anything that we can improve is going to help."

With neither Susie Wolff nor Felipe Massa completing ma𝓀ny laps in FP1, Bottas said the team would look to recover in the post-race test.

"We missed some aero tests that we had planned for the morning so it's a pity. The main thing that we focused on in practice two then was just the set-up work and then the aero tests we can always do nex𝓡t week in the test here. So it's one session really lost for us but we can't chan☂ge it."

Although Friday's running toꦑok place in dry conditions, Saturday is forecast to be wet but Bottas doesn't expect Williams to have any issues in the rain as it had earlier in the season.

"I think the improvements we made for the wet should be still there. The car has improved since we last drove ꦐin the wet so I am confident that we sh🥃ould still be quite good."