Within the round-up: Esteban Ocon denies racing his crew mate too onerous throughout yesterday’s Austrian Grand Prix.
Briefly
Ocon defends “onerous and truthful racing”
Pierre Gasly was unimpressed when Ocon compelled him broad at flip three throughout yesterday’s race. “What was that?” he requested his crew on the radio. “Why did he simply push me off the observe?”
Talking after the race Ocon, who collided with Gasly earlier this 12 months in Monaco, insisted his transfer has been “onerous and truthful racing.”
“Nothing actually to remark,” he advised the official F1 channel. “It was good racing.”
Gasly, who later handed Ocon and went on to complete two locations forward of him, was extra restrained in his feedback afterwards. “It was intense,” he stated. “I imply, we’re System 1 drivers so that you’ve received to race and that’s what we get pleasure from.
“Clearly it’s good to have some area, however generally there’s no area, and then you definately’ve received to seek out different methods to make it via. I believe I saved it clear on my aspect, managed to get some extent out of it in order that’s a very powerful.”
Verstappen cleared over pit lane incident
Max Verstappen collected one penalty within the Austrian Grand Prix however averted a second earlier within the race when Lando Norris complained the Pink Bull driver delayed his arrival within the pit field.
The stewards conceded “there’s a chance that automotive one [Verstappen] hindered automotive 4 [Norris] on its method to the pit cease,” however selected to take no motion. “Article 34.14 (a) specifies {that a} automotive is taken into account to be launched in an unsafe method if it might endanger pit lane personnel or one other driver,” they famous. “This was not the case and subsequently no additional motion is taken.”
Komatsu “speechless” at Haas consequence
Haas crew principal Ayao Komatsu was thrilled by the crew’s greatest factors haul of the 12 months thus far in Austria. Nico Hulkenberg took sixth, two positioned forward of crew mate Kevin Magnussen, transferring the crew as much as seventh within the championship on 19 factors.
“I’m simply so glad for everybody within the crew,” stated Komatsu, who took cost at Haas at first of this 12 months. “Generally we get unfortunate however at this time our execution was superb.
“Nico and Kevin drove nicely, and pit stops have been good, all the pieces was nice. I’m speechless, I’m simply so glad for everybody to get this consequence and for Nico to beat Perez on benefit, that’s an enormous assertion.”
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Stiff penalty for Marti
Pepe Marti acquired the equal of a 10-second stop-and-go penalty after yesterday’s System 2 function because the stewards dominated his obligatory pit cease passed off throughout a Digital Security Automotive interval.
Though the stewards accepted Marti was “extremely shut” to Security Automotive Line One on the pit lane entrance when the Digital Security Automotive interval started and stated they “perceive why he did what he did”, they dominated his pit cease didn’t adjust to the rules.
His penalty was transformed to a 30-second time penalty which dropped him from fourth place to fifteenth within the closing consequence.
Antonelli apologises for stalling
Andrea Kimi Antonelli apologised to his crew after stalling in his pit field throughout yesterday’s System 2 function race.
“The race was trying good,” stated the Mercedes junior driver. “The launch at the beginning was nice as I lastly discovered a system to get it proper, and the tempo on prime [tyres] was actually good.
“I simply made a mistake on the pit cease and that was just about it for my race. I’m sorry for the crew, I’ll proceed working to keep away from the errors and maintain transferring ahead.”
Antonelli has failed to attain within the final 4 races and fallen from sixth to ninth within the championship.
Monitor limits nonetheless an issue in F3
The brand new observe limits answer at turns 9 and ten on the Pink Bull Ring, which now options 1.5-metre broad kerbs, led to a major discount in penalties in System 1. Nonetheless System 3 automobiles continued to fall foul of turns the place the kerbs are wider.
A complete of 64 observe limits offences have been registered throughout yesterday’s function race. Of these, simply three have been registered at flip 9 and none at ten. Greater than half occured at flip one, the place 33 infringements have been recorded, the remaining at turns three and 6.
Social media
Notable posts from X (previously Twitter), TikTok and extra:
Spare a thought for the truckies about to set off on the thousand mile trek from Pink Bull Ring to Silverstone, some 800 drivers from F1,F2,F3 and Porsches. Bon voyage to you all. See you on the different finish
|@Max33Verstappen‘s view on his collision with @LandoNorris after he rewatched footage of the incident he was given a 10-second time penalty for.#F1 #AustrianGP #RaceFans pic.twitter.com/R4xolN1uR1
— RaceFans (@racefansdotnet) June 30, 2024
Max is a grimy driver in fight. At all times has been beforehand with Lewis and Leclerc however by no means accepts accountability which is why he retains doing it…! 😡😡
— TIM HARVEY (@timharvey7) June 30, 2024
Toto Wolff pointedly not blaming the motive force he is determined to signal.#F1 #AustrianGP #RaceFans
— Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine) June 30, 2024
4th GP podium. Good trophy (and reminder of the observe limits 😉) pic.twitter.com/ugPX9SYwky
— Oscar Piastri (@OscarPiastri) June 30, 2024
|@Max33Verstappen would have taken the bonus level for quickest lap after switching to tender tyres following his collision with @LandoNorris.
However @alo_oficial pitted from seventeenth, additionally fitted softs, beat Verstappen’s time by 0.025s, and ensured nobody received the purpose.#F1 #AustrianGP pic.twitter.com/mAds5wTzq0
— RaceFans (@racefansdotnet) June 30, 2024
Harm for Chook! 😱
The @McLarenFE man picks up particles from Wehrlein’s machine, ruining his race. @Hankook_Sport #PortlandEPrix pic.twitter.com/lfubdEn0ry
— System E (@FIAFormulaE) June 30, 2024
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