F1 United States GP: George Russell apologises to Carlos Sainz for causing race-ending crash
Sainz retired with a water leak after Merce🐬des driver Russell ploughed 🌱into the side of the pole-sitter’s Ferrari having failed to slow down at Turn 1, sending him spinning to the back.
Russell, who w𝄹ent on to finish fifth in Austin after picking up a five-second time penalty for the incident, took full blame for ruining Sainz’s race.
"Firstly, apologies to him," Russell said. "We're all going into Turn 1 attacking, you never want to be involved in contributing to tak🍨ing somebody else's race out.
"I was expecting him to try to go around the outside of Max ꦺrather than cut back, and by that point I'd already committed and it was kind of inevitable that I was going to make contact.
"I just went to see him and apologised for that.
"From there on it was a 🐠really difficult afternoon for me personally. I've been really off the pace this weekend. I know there was some damage, but🐬 I don't know how much damage there was exactly to the car.
"൩It will give me a bit of peace of mind if it's more than we first anticipated, because I was nowhere this afternoon.”
Russell remains fourth in the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:F1 2022 drivers’ standings, 20 points clear of Mercedes teammate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton.
Sainz: Russell came from nowhere
Sainz had slipped behind the fast-starting Red Bull of Max Verstappen and was looꦚking to fight back exiting Turn 1 when he was hit by Russell.
Speaking to the media immediately afte📖r his retirement while the race was ongoing, and before R🏅ussell had apologised, Sainz said: "I think you don't need many words. You just need the images to see exactly what happened, and the images speak for themselves.
"I was in the middle of a fight with Max into𒁃 Turn 1 and suddenly one guy that wasn't in the battle came from nowhere and bumped into me, so that's it.”
The Spaniard claimed his Ferrari has an “inher🌠ent problem” after making his latest poor start.
"I think it is a combination of things," he added. "Our start hasn't been great because we ha✤ve an inherent problem in this car.
"My start [today] wasn't too bad when you compare it to the Mercs, it was Max w✱ho got a really good ♋one."
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