In the round-up: Sergio Perez says Nico Hulkenberg should have waited to pass him more easily when they collided during the British Grand Prix.
In brief
Perez collision “rushed and unnecessary” – Hulkenberg
The Haas driver’s race was ruined when he was passed by the quicker Red Bull of Perez and the pair made contact, removing Hulkenberg’s front-left wing endplate.
“It’s just unfortunate,” he told media including RaceFans afterwards. “Actually I didn’t even feel it but we must have touched at the exit of [turn] four.
“I think it was a little bit impatient from him because he had DRS, after turn six anyway he would have gone easily by me. It was a little bit rushed and unnecessary, I thought. But it is what it is now.”
Four caught speeding in pits in F2
Yesterday’s Formula 2 feature race saw an unusually high number of drivers penalised for pit lane speeding violations. A quartet of racers – Arthur Leclerc, Jehan Daruvala, Richard Verschoor and Roy Nissany – all exceeded the limit by up to 4.9kph and were given five-second time penalties.
Oliver Bearman was handed a five-second penalty for causing a collision with Kush Maini after the pair tangled at Vale. That incident caused a subsequent collision between Maini and Ralph Boschung.
The stewards ruled Maini had right to the racing line in his attempted overtake on Bearman. They deemed the Prema driver “wholly responsible for the incident” and issued a penalty which dropped him from sixth to eighth in the final classification. One penalty point has also been added to his licence.
Grid drop for Edgar
Jonny Edgar has been given a three-place grid drop for the next race he competes in after colliding with Caio Collet at Silverstone.
During the feature race the MP driver hit Collet at Vale after misjudging his braking on the inside. He was initially given a five-second penalty but as Edgar did not finish the race, it has been converted to a grid drop. It is likely to come into effect at the next Formula 3 round in two weeks at Budapest.
Collet didn’t leave Silverstone penalty-free either. He was penalised for leaving the track and gaining an advantage during his overtake on Ido Cohen at Stowe. He did not give the position back and has a five-second penalty as a result.
That dropped Collet from 9th to 15th in the final classification with Gregoire Saucy and Sebastian Montoya now claiming the final two points positions.
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‘The start of the issue with us was on Friday when Charles wasn’t able to run in FP2 and so we only had a long run on the Soft from which we had concerns about degradation. That’s why we decided to go with Medium-Hard, which proved to be too conservative a choice as the degradation was lower than expected. That is an important lesson for us.’
Drivers and team’s quotes after the race (AlphaTauri)
‘The aero update we have introduced here appears to be broadly in line with expectations, but it has not been enough to move us forward in Silverstone. The further planned aero update for Hungary will be an important step to start addressing this, to get back on track towards achieving our objectives.”’
‘It’s been a very disappointing weekend. We just didn’t have the pace and we’ve now had our third engine failure in three races as well – that doesn’t help us.’
‘Zhou’s race has been more unfortunate: we had to pit him an extra time to remove a tear-off from his brake duct, which made him lose a position and eventually kept him from further progressing through the field.’
‘McLaren have shown that they are podium contenders; they were the second quickest team this weekend, which is impressive when you consider where they were earlier in the season.’
Early confidence ‘came back to bite us’ after wet-to-dry Sprint Race struggles (F2)
Oliver Bearman: ‘The early phase of the race was really strong. I think it came back to bite us at the end, I had to overtake Hadjar twice.’
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