Who triggered Sao Paulo Grand Prix start chaos? F1 crash trio have their say on early drama

Williams’ 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alex Albon and the Haas pair of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Kevin Magnussen and168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Nico Hulkenberg came to blows on the run to Turn 1, with McLaren’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Oscar Piastri and AlphaTauri’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Daniel Ricciardo also getting caught up in the melee.
Albon and Magnussen immediately retired from the 𒐪race, while Piastri and Ricciardo were able to get their cars fixed under during the subsequent red flag while repairs were carried out to the 🧸heavily damaged barriers.
Onboard footage from Albon’s car s꧒howed that he was tagged by Hulkenberg, before the Williams driver cꦓonnected with the other Haas of Magnussen.
Explaining the drama from his perspective, Magnussen said: “I got a really good start and then I thin🅰k Albon squeezed Nico [Hulkenberg], they had contact, and that sent Albon into me like a chain reaction.”

Albon hཧad a slightly different view, saying: “A bit of a racing incident I think.&nb😼sp;
“I had a great start; I think it was one of the strongest starts on the grid, pulled alongside the two Haas [cars], felt like we were almost there to overtake them but after looking at the external cameras, the driver on the inside was a bit blindsidedꦐ, started to move across and obviously there is myself and another Haas in-between.”
He added: “I’m just frustrated as we are in a championship battle and we can’t lose out on points like that and we kind of opened up the race for others꧃ to score points.
“With all the retired cars throughout the race and many out of place with d♊amage from the crash, we really could’ve been on for points, so it’s disappointing when the championship fight is so tight."
Hulkenberg, who was abl🅷e to continue and went on to take the chequered flag in 12th, fe𓆏lt there was little he could do after getting “sandwiched”.
The German tried everythin🥂g to back out of the incident but could do little to avoid the contact when he found himself caught in the middle of his🔯 teammate and Albon.
“It was a typical start situation where it got too tight there, and it was very similar to what happened to me ꦫin the Sprint in Qatar with Esteban [Ocon] and Checo [Perez], I got sandwiched.
"You can’t really 🍃bail out at that point, so I made contact with Albon which then put him into Kevin [Magnussen]. It was unfortunate but there wasn’t much we could do.”


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