F1 United States GP: George Russell apologises to Carlos Sainz for causing race-ending crash
Sainz retired with a water leak after Mercedes driver Russell ploughed into the side of the pole-sitter’s Ferrari having failed to🐼 slow down at Turn 1, sending him spinning to the back.
Russell, who went on to finish fifth in Austin ꦆafter picking up a five-second time penalty for the incident, took full blame for ruining Sainz’s race.
"Firstly, apologies to him," Russell said. "We're all going into Turn 1 attacking, you never wan🌟t to be involved in contributing to taking somebody else's race out.
"I was expecting him to try to 🎶go around the outside of Max rather than cut back, and by that point I'd already committed and it was kind of inevitable tha𒊎t I was going to make contact.
"I just went to see him and apologised for that.
"From there♊ on it was a really difficu𒀰lt afternoon for me personally. I've been really off the pace this weekend. I know there was some damage, but I don't know how much damage there was exactly to the car.
"It will give me a bit of peace of mind if it's more than we first anticipated, because I was n𓂃owhere this afternoon.”
Russell remains fourth in the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:F1 2022 drivers’ standings, 20 points clear of Mercedes teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton.
Sainz: Russell came from nowhere
Sainz had slipped behind the fast-starting Red Bull of Max Verstappen and was looking to fight back exiting Turn 1 wh🦩en he was hit by Russell.
Speaking to the media immediately after his retirement while the race was ongoing, and before Russell had apologis♒ed, Sainz said: "I think you don't need many words. You just need the images to see exactly what happened, and the images speak for themselves.
"I was in the middle of a fight with Max into Turn 1 and suddenly one ༒guy tha𒁏t wasn't in the battle came from nowhere and bumped into me, so that's it.”
The Spaniard claimed his Ferrari has an “inherent problem” after ma🐼king his late🍰st poor start.
"I think it is a coꦜmbination of th🧸ings," he added. "Our start hasn't been great because we have an inherent problem in this car.
"My start [today] wasn'🥂t too bad when you compare it to the Mercs, it was Max who got a really good one."
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