Within the round-up: Pink Bull group principal Christian Horner says Ferrari’s reliability issues are of no consolation to his group as they compete for this 12 months’s world championship titles.
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Ferrari’s reliability woes of no consolation to Pink Bull in title struggle
Carlos Sainz Jnr suffered the newest in a collection of reliability failures for Ferrari in final week’s Austrian Grand Prix.
Pink Bull’s Max Verstappen at present leads the drivers’ championship by 38 factors over Sainz’s group mate Charles Leclerc. Ferrari have suffered 4 mechanical retirements within the final six rounds.
However requested if Ferrari’s latest reliability issues gave Pink Bull trigger for optimism of their championship, Horner mentioned “probably not.”
“We’re not too focussed on them and that,” Horner continued. “We will’t management or contribute to that in any approach. I feel that we’ve bought to give attention to ourselves and on simply getting the most effective out of our personal package deal.
Horner says Pink Bull are acutely aware that Ferrari may have secured a one-two victory final weekend in Austria had Sainz not suffered an influence unit failure. “That they had a really robust automobile – they may have may have properly completed first and second. Up till about lap 12, the weekend had gone fairly properly when it comes to the pole place and the dash victory. However, sadly, that tyre deg simply hit us fairly arduous.”
New York crash ‘one among my strongest’ – Di Grassi
Lucas di Grassi labelled the race ending crash he was concerned in on the finish of the primary New York EPrix as one of many largest he had skilled in his motorsport profession.
Di Grassi was operating in second behind Nick Cassidy when rain started to fall with round ten minutes remaining within the race. Sudden excessive ranges of standing water alongside the again straight triggered Cassidy, Di Grassi and Stoffel Vandoorne to aquaplane off the observe and into the flip six limitations, with Di Grassi’s Venturi hitting Cassidy’s Envision earlier than each have been struck by the Mercedes.
“The crash right now was the strongest crash of my Method E profession,” mentioned Di Grassi. “One of many strongest crashes I had in motorsport.
“It was properly over 15G, I might say. I’m absolutely bruised – my neck, my arms, my legs – however I’m okay. It simply exhibits that while you’re aquaplaning, there’s nothing actually you are able to do. I’m pleased that they put [out] the purple flag they usually reversed the results of the race, as a result of it was the fairest factor to do. I’m pleased with the factors, however sad that the automobile is totally in items and the mechanics should work very, very arduous to place the automobile collectively for tomorrow.”
IndyCar driver salaries “getting higher” – Rahal
Graham Rahal says salaries for IndyCar drivers are “positively getting higher” after latest seasons the place some drivers wouldn’t be paid greater than bills for competing within the collection.
Controversy erupted over Alex Palou’s future this week with each Ganassi and McLaren claiming to have rights to his providers for 2023. Rahal says that the driving force market in IndyCar is turning into extra financially aggressive.
“I feel {the marketplace} is unquestionably getting higher,” mentioned Rahal. “Driver salaries are rising. Just about all people’s salaries are rising.
“I additionally assume 5, six, seven, eight years in the past it was approach too low. There have been a bunch of fellows within the collection that weren’t even getting paid – principally their bills to dwell and that’s it. I feel that it was simply form of out of line.
“I feel nonetheless as a collection typically clearly we don’t play as many video games as baseball or no matter. While you see a number of the salaries which can be introduced in these main sports activities, you could possibly actually fund a number of race vehicles for years off what a few of these guys are making.”
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