Terrifying near-miss at F1 Canadian Grand Prix: “Had my eyes closed, bracing…”
🌌“But it must have been by a fe🐈w millimetres – it felt very, very close."
The scary near-miss between Nico Hulkenberg a🌸nd Yuki Tsunoda at last weekend’s F1 Canadian Grand Prix has been recounted.
RB drivꦏer Tsunoda spun, after losing control of his 💯car, across the grass at Turn 8.
Quickly ꦰapproaching out of Turn 9 was the Haas of Hul♊kenberg.
Somehow, the cars missed each other.
Hulkenberg’s perspective was: “I ꦛjust don’t k༒now…
“I🉐 tried to react, tried to stop and trie🐈d to avoid him.
“But it must ha𒉰ve been by a few millimetres – it felt very, very close.
— Formula 1 (@F1)Hulkenber𒁃g eventually finished 11th, a place ahead of teammate Kevin Magnussen.
They had been running in fourth and seventh much earli🔴er in the race.
Magnussen was hindered by a slow pit stop when he changed 🍌to intermediate tyres.
Magnussen explaജined his annoyance: “I didn’t feel like we got the best out of it.
“With all th💧e opportunity that the race offered, we didn’t seem to caඣpitalise on that, so that’s disappointing.
“So we’ll review it and try to understand it. Right now i🍒t’s al🏅l a bit blurry.
“There was lots of opportunity, that’s for sure, and we didn’t get any points so we'v✃e got to look into things.
“We had one veryꦜ slow and one medium-slow [pit stop].
“And then I also think we pitted for inters off t༺he full wets too early and had to take another inter, which felt unnecessary.
“But I have to look into it properly to make sure I’m right in s🔯ay𝕴ing that.
“Yꦛeah, it felt like there was something coming there in the beginning of the race and nothing to show for it.”
Hulkenberg added: “The first 10 laps were g🥀oing really well.
“Bಌut then it dried out and all came undone again. But yeah, 💯that was that.
“We knew about that risk – not risk, but that scenario. But a clean race, no mistak෴es at least.”
J๊ames was a sports journalist at Sky Sports fo❀r a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
