In the round-up: Mick Schumacher says he understood why Sebastian Vettel walked out of a drivers’ meeting last week, for which he received a suspended fine.
In brief
Drivers meeting went on “longer than necessary” – Schumacher
Vettel was fined €25,000 for leaving the meeting before he was supposed to last Friday. Schumacher explained how frustrations grew between drivers in the discussion over enforcement of rules in F1.
“I just felt like we were going in circles with some of the things that were discussed,” said Schumacher. “It kind of was getting longer than necessary. I fully understand the reaction from Seb and I think there were a lot more drivers that kind of felt the need to maybe leave the briefing as well.”
The Aston Martin driver refused to elaborate on what happened in the meeting when asked after Sunday’s race.
Albon encouraged by “first proper race” for upgraded FW44
Alexander Albon said the first proper race outing for Williams’ upgraded car, following his first-corner retirement at Silverstone, was “at some points exciting.”
“We were running P10 at one point, which I was really happy about,” said Albon after finished 12th on Sunday. “Our pace was much better than yesterday.
“With the medium tyres we took a step up in performance and I was happy. I felt like it’s our first proper race with the new aero package.
“We will learn a lot from today, we’ll have a look at the data and conclude where we are strong, where we are weak. We’re clearly still missing a little bit but we’re still getting to grips with the car. I felt as a a genuine debut outing, first outing for the car, it was not a bad day.”
Fans’ smoke no problem – drivers
The huge clouds of orange smoke produced by fans at the Red Bull Ring did not present serious problems for drivers, though it did obscure their visibility at times.
“On the formation lap, you couldn’t see the apex of turn seven, and at the end of the race, you couldn’t see anything through turn six,” said Lewis Hamilton. “So fortunately, it wasn’t necessarily the case during the race but maybe they should just save them more so for the end? I can’t believe they’re already good environmentally either.”
Max Verstappen said he “saw one flare they threw onto the track or into the grass, I think that’s the only thing they shouldn’t do.
“But as long as you keep it on the grandstand, the wind blows it over the…
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