Alex Albon is not going to participate within the Sao Paulo Grand Prix resulting from his heavy crash late in Q3 throughout Sunday morning’s qualifying session.
Qualifying was postponed from Saturday resulting from heavy rain, and came about in moist circumstances regardless of the extraordinarily early 0730 begin time, with a number of crashes delaying it additional. Albon had impressed to sit down a provisional second on the grid within the closing phases of Q3, however had an enormous crash at Flip 1 and says he gained’t participate within the race consequently.
“I feel we had a problem – I do know we had a problem, we simply must undergo it,” Albon mentioned. “I don’t know. Instantly after I hit the brake pedal there was a beep in my ear which usually means there’s a failure, after which rear locking and an enormous crash. I imply, that’s us out for the race sadly…
“It gained’t be fastened.”
Regardless of his crash, Albon had nonetheless ended up seventh within the classification on the finish of qualifying, however as soon as his withdrawal is confirmed all different automobiles will transfer up a place.
Teammate Franco Colapinto was first to crash in Q1 – going off at Flip 3 – and the a number of delays to the session meant it was one other hour and a half earlier than Williams may get the automobile again to research the injury on the rookie’s aspect of the storage. Colapinto, nonetheless, will make the race.
“A little bit of wheelspin and I misplaced the rear very aggressively and I couldn’t get well it,” Colapinto mentioned. “First time within the moist and a bit slippery, a little bit of a mistake, and I’m very sorry for the blokes within the storage. It’s a whole lot of work, let’s see if we will make it for the race however I’m very sorry for them.”
In addition to the 2 Williams automobiles, each Aston Martins additionally sustained heavy injury in crashes, as did Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz.
