Da Costa’s race was over on the first lap following a string of misfortune, in which he suffered with power issues on the line which meant he was slow to get away.
He was then caught between Oliver Askew on his left and Dan Ticktum on his right at the first corner, with the latter stuffing his NIO 333 car past da Costa’s DS Techeetah.
The Portuguese driver was left with terminal suspension damage and had to retreat immeditely to the pits, and felt that Ticktum should have dialled down his aggression at the start.
“As soon as I got off the line, my car switched off – some kind of software problem – and then it came back on,” da Costa explained.
“But obviously you’re very vulnerable at that moment with just cars coming across you, and I got to T1 and the driver [Ticktum] on my inside locked up which then hit me. I hit another guy and I broke my front left suspension.
“I was a bit unlucky because I got put in the middle of two rookies between Ticktum and Askew.
“One of them was…
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