Williams Martini driver Felipe Massa would suffer an engine issue in qualifying for the 2015 Canadian Grand Prix which would see him repeatedly oin the radio to his team saying that he had no power in the engine. It was later revealed by  team performance chief Rob Smedley that this was down to a fixing within the wastegate of the Mercedes engine failing.

This failure would see Felipe finish in seventeenth, while his team-mate Valtteri Bottas completed what he described as his "best lap of the weekend" to qualify fourth.

Smedley said: "It was a fixing within the wastegate mechanism of the turbocharger that failed, so it will be changed for tomorrow.

"It effectively meant in very simple terms he just didn't have any power.

"It was very difficult to charge the battery as well from the hybrid system from the MGU-H.

"So effectively we were just missing lots of power and couldn't do anything about it."

Smedley does not think Mercedes had had this problem before and added the team plans to replace the part without taking a penalty as per the regulations.

"We're replacing like for like and we're replacing it for reliability reasons," he said.

"Clearly we can do that under parc ferme, as long as we get permission from the FIA that's allowed under parc ferme and that will give us no further ramifications."

Massa added: "These things can happen, when there is a technical problem you cannot do anything.

"We just change what needs to be changed and tomorrow is another day.

"It was going to be a good qualifying for us, the car was competitive, maybe we could have both cars in the top five but we just have one.

"But overtaking is possible and I hope we can do many tomorrow."