Hadjar blame it after “errors” who cost him the top 10

Eleventh this Sunday, at 0 “168 of the tenth place, and no point registered on the two races of the weekend, this is the frustrating assessment of the Miami Grand Prix for Isack Hadjar. All the more frustrating than the French, who was rushed at 11th, saw the tenth position thanks to a penalty received by Yuki Tsunoda (speed in the stands) and with.

Las, in the last loop, Hadjar came out of the five -second window behind the Japanese, depriving himself of a new entry into the points. After the test, he did not fail to display his regrets by having in mind the missed opportunities to waste less time during his last relay.

“It’s a shame because when I see the stint that I do – I really had difficulty with the car – there were still two or three errors and on the relay, I think there is a second to get”he said at the microphone of Canal+. “So I blame myself a little, but I think Yuki too made mistakes.”

“I had the difference in live gap and I gave everything, but it was not enough”he later added, for the international media. “A tenth on 25 laps, or more, with the [pneus] Hard … I don’t know how many laps we have done, but a lot. It’s really a tenth on all of these laps, but it’s like that. Yuki may have made some mistakes on his side, but the most important thing is that I feel like I did too much and that it cost me the top 10. “

“Losing a tenth here and there on 30 laps is easy, and that’s what I did in the last round. I knew that I was less than five seconds, so it was clearly qualifications against him, and I wanted to make it too much and I made some mistakes. Yes [c’est frustrant]but it’s better to fail outside the top 10 and show rhythm than to be far from the top 10. “

The CEO of Racing Bulls, Peter Bayer, was questioned by Servustv on the subject and said: “With Isack, we were on [une stratégie] medium-durstes. We brought it back – to change the tires – and two laps later, there was the Virtual Safety Car. Even if we had managed to make a Undercut, he did not really benefit us overall, unfortunately. “

“The positive is that our car suddenly became very fast. Towards the end, Alan Permanent [le directeur sportif] told us ‘guys, I don’t know what happened, but all of a sudden we have a car for the race and not just a car for qualifications’. It therefore appeared that we had found the right operating window. Isack even returned to Yuki, who had five seconds of penalty, but unfortunately he wasted time in the first sector of the last round, from the first turn. “

In the end, I was lost time, I made him waste time, so it was a bit bad.

For Canal+, Hadjar then took a little more perspective on the rest of its race: “It was complicated and finally, we lose everything on the first relay, to the recovery of the first Virtual Safety because where I relaunched with too much gap with the front car and where I had problems with the brakes. So, when Lewis [Hamilton] Double me, I get straight, I salur my tires and then I get more delay in the front group. “”

“It’s frustrating because I want to have a great battle with him [Hamilton] But I couldn’t brake as I wanted, so I was a little suffering. In the end, I was lost time, I made him waste time, so it was a bit bad. It’s a shame.”

Avec Oleg Karpov