Chinese GP '25 // Thurs Interview
β[On his crash in Australia] On my way back from the car to the paddock, (I beat myself up). Then, once I had a look at the data and saw what happened, I felt a lot more relieved... There's still these very small details that sometimes, in 99% of the cases, will not [catch] you out, but the first time that you run a certain mode, with certain quality of upshift, in certain low grip situations that, obviously, I've never experienced before in this team, it caught me out. And it meant a very bad ending to what had been, until then, a positive weekend. So, we learn from it. But it's these kind of experiences that you need to go through to make steps with the team and to move forward and progress.β
Fining a driver for being late to a National Anthem an eye watering amount (20x the maximum fine for breaching the pit lane speed limit) is already quite something, but when you take into account that:
Said driver was late due to a medical issue personally attested to by an official Med-Ex doctor;
Who found the medical issue serious enough to require prescription medication to treat symptoms; and
Said driver is the new director of the GPDA (an association that specifically exists to promote the safety of Grand Prix drivers) -
- we have reached a level of irony so comedic one would be forgiven for thinking this would happen in a fanfiction rather than reality.
Yet the FIA have once again surpassed all expectations.
This team is so perfect together... almost all of them are nerdy ππ
πͺ // via alex's insta story