An interesting dangerous situation was seen in the qualifying sessions of the Austin sprint.
The most talked-about moment of the Austin F1 sprint day’s qualifying sessions was seen in the opening section, when the Mercedes George Russell was Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc ahead in a dangerous way.
Russell stayed on the fastest line, even though the rear was clearly faster Charles Leclerc. The Monaco native had to make a quick evasive move.
In the situation, Leclerc immediately started to judge the race and stated on the team radio that Russel should be punished.
The Ferrari star got his way. Russell received a three-start penalty for the situation. The British driver starts the sprint race from the 11th grid.
In the end, Leclerc was second in the sprint qualifying, only 0.055 seconds short of the pole time book About Max Verstappen.
After qualifying, Russell complained on Sky Sports that there were problems with his radio.
– I heard the speech of all the engineers in the background. I heard it at high speed. It sounded like they were talking to me. It was quite disturbing, Russell stated.
Leclerc’s team radio speeches also made headlines on Friday when he complained about his race engineer’s way of talking about breaking the track limits. Leclerc took pole position for Sunday’s race after Verstappen’s lap was disallowed for violating track limits.
Alfa Romeo Valtteri Bottas was only 18th in the sprint time trial. The sprint competition starts at 1:00 a.m. Finnish time.
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