In the round-up: Yuki Tsunoda says his team mate apologise for the first-lap tangle between the pair in last weekend’s sprint race.
In brief
Tsunoda gets a Baku breakfast apology from de Vries
Tsunoda has revealed Nyck de Vries apologised to him on Sunday morning in Baku after the AlphaTauri pair clashed in the previous day’s sprint race.
Damage from the collision led to Tsunoda’s retirement after just two laps, while de Vries was able to continue and went on to finish 14th.
“We didn’t have a chat [after the sprint],” said Tsunoda on Sunday. “But this morning when we were eating breakfast he came to my table and apologised to me. So that’s all good. We just reset completely and we said ‘let’s race strong’. So we’re all good.”
It was a reversal of fortunes in the Azerbaijan Grand Prix on Sunday as de Vries retired after nine laps while Tsunoda scored a point by finishing tenth.
Sargeant “extremely disappointed” to let down Williams
Williams’ Logan Sargeant said he was “extremely disappointed” to let down his team on Saturday in Baku as he crashed into the turn 15 wall during the ‘Sprint shootout’ and as a result missed the sprint race.
“I mean, it happens,” he said after finishing 16th in Sunday’s grand prix. “Obviously, it’s not what I want to happen. I’m extremely disappointed to have left the team with a big, big, big crash damage and a lot of work for the boys to do overnight.
“But I’ll learn from it, I’ll move on, and I did my best to execute a good race today. That’s all I could really do. And I look forward to Miami and try to be better there.”
Alfa Romeo retired Zhou to save his engine
Alfa Romeo’s head of trackside engineering Xevi Pujolar has revealed the reason why Zhou Guanyu pitted to retire in the final third of the Azerbaijan GP. Zhou had been running in 18th at the time, ahead of only one other car and far away from a potential points finish.
“So, Zhou, we had an issue on the cooling system. That’s why we had to retire, just to make sure that we don’t damage the engine,” Pujolar told media including RaceFans.
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