Mercedes Formula 1 chief Toto Wolff says the team is “90 percent confident” of avoiding🌺 a penalty in its rebuild of Valt✨teri Bottas’ car following the Finn’s crash at the end of Mexican Grand Prix qualifying on Saturday.

Bottas crashed hard at the final corner ✃in the closing stages of Q3, leaving his Mercedes W10 car with a sizeable amount of damage that required repairing ahead of Sunday’s race.

B🧔ottas was taken to the medical centre immediately due to the impact of the accident befor♛e quickly being checked and cleared.

The damage left to the car led to fears it may fo💮rce a chassis or gearbox change that would cost Bottas his P6 starting slot, but Wolff was confident the fixes could be completed without triggering a penalty.

“We are 90 percent confident we can fix without any pena𒐪lties. It was an unusual angle of impact so I think we got away with that,” Wolff said after qualifying on Saturday.

"They are rebuilding it as we speak. We have to look into the detail,ꦐ but we havꦐe not seen any damage to the gearbox. We do not know if it is leaking.”

Bottas added: “We had the qualif🃏ying debrief and they are optimistic [of fixing the car].

“Obviously there’s a lot of work to do for the boys. It was quite a st🌳range incident, so it’s different from the many different parts that are normally damaged in incidents.

“So far we still th♋in𒅌k it will be OK, but we still need to wait.”

Bottas was heard sounding winded over his radio following the accident, and re♛vealed he felt 📖some initial pain in his right knee following the shunt.

“On the initial one I hit my keens together, so in the first five minutes ඣI couldn’t feel my right knee, but now it’s ꦆnormal, I have no pain,” Bottas said.

“The last hit against the TecPro [barrier] took my breath away a bit. And I forgot I had🔯 the radio on.”