Kvyat hits out at “unprofessional” Albon after collision in F1 Eifel GP
Daniil Kvyat has labelled Alex Albon “unprofessional”ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ after the pair came together during Formula 1’s Eifel 🍃Grand Prix.
Albon﷽ and Kvyat made contract at the final corner after an intense scrap over 10th place, with Kvyat initially running wide at the last chicane. The AlphaTauri driver cut across the grass before re-joining ahe𝓀ad of Albon, whose Red Bull clipped Kvyat as he swept past.
The contact removed Kv🌳yat’s front wing and forced him into an unscheduled stop having completed a full lap without the wing attached to his AT01 after passing the pit lane. The incident ruined Kvyat’s race as he ultimately crossed the line 15th and last🍸.
“I didn’t understand his manoeuvre rওeally,” Kvyat said.
“Wh💜at was he doing? I think it was quite unprofession𒁏al of him and poor judgement, so you wouldn’t expect that from a driver of his level, who’s been racing so long.
“But anyway, the race was pretty much ruined from then on. I had to do the whole lap very slow with the damaged front wing as a c✅onsequence.
“It went under my floor, damaged my whole floor, the brake cooling, and t♔he race from there was really a struggle because the car was massively down on downforce, and I was just really hoping for rain or something really strange to happen.”
Albon was ℱgiven a five-second time penalty but did not take his punishment after retiring from th🍌e race with a punctured radiator.
The Thai racer also received two penalty points on his licence for the collision and he admitted the contact came after a misjudgemen🌠t on his behalf.
“Obviously Dany ran a bit wide in the chicane ♍and it was a bit of a misjudgement on my side,” Albon explained. “I don’t really know [what happened] but ꧟we went into the last corner and we touched.
“The pace in the car is good,” added Albon, who’d qualified an encouraging P5, “so it’s annoying to have a result like this now. But to be honest, on my side, I waꩲsn’t really too happy with my race, just a few m🎀istakes, and obviously the lock-up [on Lap 1] compromised us a lot.”
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