The Canadian was ai🙈ming to reach Q3 for only the second time this season when he dipped a wheel onto the grass and spun off into the Turn 8 barriers, an incident whi꧂ch caused a red flag.

Latifi was unhurt in the hard impact which caused heavy damage to the rear of his Williams car. In a post on social media🍒 on Saturday evening, Latifi revealed the crash had registered at 38G.

“I will be surprised if we don’t take a gearbox penalty with 𓂃the impact I had,” he said. “Apologies to the team, as I know I l🦹eft them a lot of work tonight.”

The margins are fine at Zandvoort, as♕ both George Russell and Nicholas Latifi found out in quꦺalifying

— Formula 1 (@F1)

Explaining his accident, Latifi added: “Unfortunately, my only new set was the firꦐst red flag in Q2, so that kind of wasted that set.

“Surprisingly at the end, ⛎I went out on another used set of tyres. I was improving my lap time compared to what I did in Q1, which was on Q3 cut-off.

“Peop🔯le would have probably improved, but it would have been a decent lap, so I said, ‘well nothing to lose, might lose the tyres at the end, but just go for it, otherwise I’ll still be P15 anyway’.

“I misjudged the turn inও point and c꧃lipped the grass.”

Latifi’s crash came just minutes after the session had restarted following a red flag when his teammate George Russell slid off at the final corner while attempting to improve on his Q2 t𝓰ime.

The Briton, who ended qualifying 11th, con𝓰ceded ꦐhe “pushed too hard” when his tyres were over the limit.

“We alꦏl want c𒅌ircuits that punish you and it certainly did,” Russell explained.

“I pushed too hard. I knew that lap would have been just good enough to promote ♕me into the top 10 at that point in time.

"My tyres were over th꧟e limit, and I knew I had to attack the last corner to keep that speed up onto the straight – but ultimately I went to♌o far.”