Red Bull’s Sergio Perez made a nightmare begin to his Hungarian Grand Prix weekend by crashing after two minutes of Friday’s opening observe earlier than rain made the remainder of the session largely meaningless.
The Mexican, second general however a large 99 factors behind dominant staff mate and double world champion Max Verstappen after 10 races, introduced out pink flags when he smacked into the tyre wall at flip 5.
“I cannot believe this,” mentioned Perez over the staff radio, with the stricken automobile trying prefer it had suffered some heavy harm.
“I clipped the grass, I think on braking, I just lost it,” he added.
The Mexican has did not qualify within the prime 10 in his final 5 races, solely as soon as standing on the rostrum in the identical interval, and desires a robust weekend with Red Bull reserve Daniel Ricciardo more and more within the body as a attainable alternative.
Perez missed the remainder of the session, with the automobile taken again to the pits on a truck for mechanics to begin what might be intensive repairs.
“It’s obviously frustrating…hopefully it (the damage) is contained mainly to the front right corner, which hopefully will be repairable in time for the next session,” mentioned staff boss Christian Horner.
“It was unlucky, he simply put a wheel on the grass and made a mistake into Turn Five.
“Hopefully he won’t have lost too much through this session because in these conditions people aren’t getting many laps in. But obviously not an ideal way to start the weekend.”
Mercedes’ George Russell, who took his first profession pole place in Hungary final yr, was quickest general along with his ultimate lap in a time of 1 minute 38.795 seconds.
Rain started falling throughout the stoppage after which obtained stronger.
Australian Oscar Piastri was second on the timesheets for McLaren, with Lance Stroll third for Aston Martin and Lando Norris fourth for McLaren.
Verstappen and Ricciardo had been amongst seven drivers who didn’t set a time.
Mercedes’ seven instances world champion Lewis Hamilton, winner a document eight instances in Hungary, was one of many seven. The Briton was out of his automobile earlier than the top of the session with nothing to achieve from being on observe within the circumstances.
Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz additionally introduced out pink flags when he beached his automobile on a kerb at flip three with 14 minutes remaining.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
