Esteban Ocon’s seat broke into "two parts" during dramatic first-lap airborne crash at F1 Hungarian GP
The Alpine driver was involved in an opening-lap incident involving♕ teammate Pierre Gasly, AlphaTauri’s Dan𝓰iel 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 Frenchman sent airb♊orne before landing on Gasly’s c🧔ar in the Turn 1 braking zone.
Both Alpine drivers were forced into retirement, while Zhou was hit with a five-sec♓ond penalty for causing the collisio𒆙n.
“We just suffered a strike into Turn 1. It’s just a mistake from Zhou in the back. That led us🍃 to a massive hit,” ཧexplained Ocon.
“I t♉ook off by, I don’t know, three metres, four metres on the rear𓄧 wheels. When I landed, there was a big hit.
"My seat broke in pieces, in two parts. So that tells✅ how much the imp꧒act was.
“Unfortunately, both cars were out after that. Those are the consequences from racing at the back. People ಞtend to take more risk. We knew it and we suffered from it today.
“We’re going to be racing next week and that’s the good thing because we can fo✅rget quic🍃kly this weekend.”
Ocon did noꦉt need to visit the medical centre but was treated in ꦕthe physio room afterwards.
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