Esteban Ocon’s seat broke into "two parts" during dramatic first-lap airborne crash at F1 Hungarian GP
The Alpine drivಌer was involved in an opening-lap incident involving teammate Pierre Gasly, AlphaTauri’s ༒Daniel Ricciardo and Alfa Romeo’s Zhou Guanyu.
After a🍬 sluggish getaway, Zhou rammed Ricciardo, who was helpless to avoid hitting into the back of Ocon, with the Freꦇnchman sent airborne before landing on Gasly’s car in the Turn 1 braking zone.
Both Alpine drꦑivers were forced into retire🍎ment, while Zhou was hit with a five-second penalty for causing the collision.
“We just suffered a strike into Turn 1. It’s ju🔯st a𝐆 mistake from Zhou in the back. That led us to a massive hit,” explained Ocon.
“I took off by, I don’t know, three metrꦕes, four metres on𓆉 the rear wheels. When I landed, there was a big hit.
"My seat broke in pieces, in two parts. So that tells h𒀰ow much the impact was.
“Un🍷fortunately, both cars were out after that. Those are the consequences from racing at the back. People tend to take more risk. We knew it and we suffered from it today.
“We’re going t𓂃o be racing next week and that’s the good thing because we can forget quickly this weekend.”
Ocon𓆏 did not need to visit the medical centre but was treated in the physio room afterwa🍨rds.
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