In the round-up: Aston Martin team principal Mike Krack said his driver should not have been blamed for his collision with Daniel Ricciardo during the Safety Car period in the Chinese Grand Prix.
In brief
No blame for Safety Car crash – Krack
Lance Stroll ran into Ricciardo during the first Safety Car restart in Sunday’s race. The contact left Stroll’s car damage, ended Ricciardo’s race and also broke part of Oscar Piastri’s diffuser.
The stewards held Stroll responsible and gave him a 10-second time penalty as well as two endorsement points on his licence. However Krack said no blame should have been apportioned.
“If you have to brake in the last seconds, you know how it goes sometimes if you have someone in front of you,” he told Channel 4. “These days passenger cars are stopping for us, in Formula 1 the car does not do that.
“So I don’t think that there is anyone to blame there. It’s these things that happen when when you have a Safety Car restart. We will have a look at it and try to learn from it.”
Zhou support “beautiful to see” – Norris
Lando Norris was pleased by the reception Zhou Guanyu received in Shanghai last weekend, the first time a Chinese Formula 1 driver has raced on home ground.
“The fans are always good here,” said the McLaren driver. “They’re passionate. There’s was a lot of them, obviously. The support Zhou gets here is beautiful to see.”
“Hopefully after this year I’ve got a few more [fans] and it’s only my second time here,” he added, “so again next year maybe even more.”
Ferrari admits it should have split strategies
Ferrari’s World Endurance Championship team regretted their decision not to split the strategies between its cars when rain fell during last weekend’s Six Hours of Imola. Their cars swept the top three plans on the grid but finished outside the podium places after all three cars delayed their switch to wet weather tyres when rain fell during the race.
“When the rain came, the race was affected by the mistake of not varying the strategies among our three cars that had led up to that point,” said Ferrari’s global head of endurance Antonello Coletta. “The result at the end of the Six Hours of Imola was not as expected, considering the great potential displayed by our 499Ps in the preceding…
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