Terrifying near-miss at F1 Canadian Grand Prix: “Had my eyes closed, bracing…”
“But it must𝓀 have been by ♔a few millimetres – it felt very, very close."
The scary near-miss between Nico Hulkenberg and Yuki Tsunoda at last weekend’s F1 Canadian Gran🐼d Prix has been recounted.
RB driver Tsunoda spun, after los♏ing control of his car, acr🥃oss the grass at Turn 8.
Quickly♑ appro♛aching out of Turn 9 was the Haas of Hulkenberg.
Somehow, the cars missed each other.
Hulkenberg’s pers♐pective was: “I just don🐎’t know…
“I tried to react, tried to stop anܫd tried to💃 avoid him.
“But it must ha๊ve been by a few millimetres – it felt very, very close.
— Formula 1 (@F1)Hulkenberg eventually finis🔴hed 11th, a place ahead of teammate Kevin Magnussen.
They had been runniꦦng in fourth and sevent📖h much earlier in the race.
Magnussen was hindered by a slow pit s🍨top when he changed to intermediate tyres.
Magnussen explained hi꧟s an🐬noyance: “I didn’t feel like we got the best out of it.
“With all the opportunity that the race offered, we didn’t seem to capitalise on that, so that’s disa𒅌ppointing.
“So we’ll review it and try to understan⛄d it. Right now it’s all a bit blurry.
“There was 🌳lots of opportunity, that’s for sure, and we didn’t get any points so we've got to look into things.
“We had one very🍨 slow and one medium-slow [pit stop].
“And 🌄then I also🌠 think we pitted for inters off the full wets too early and had to take another inter, which felt unnecessary.
“But I h𒊎ave to look into it properly to make sure I’m right in saying that.
“Yeah, it felt like there was something coming there in the beginning of the race and nothing to sho🔯w for it.”
Hulkenberg added: “The first 10 laps were 😼꧃going really well.
“But then it dried ou🌳t and all ca⛎me undone again. But yeah, that was that.
“We knew about th𓂃at risk – not risk, but that scenario. But a clean race, no mistakes at least.”
James was a sports journalist at Sky🎉 Sports for a decade covering everything from American꧟ sports, to football, to F1.
