Alex Albon selected to not blame Oliver Bearman for his or her Mexico Grand Prix FP1 conflict, and felt that Ferrari informed its reserve driver too late that the Williams Components 1 driver was approaching.
Albon got here throughout Bearman on the run-up to the high-speed sequence of Turns 7-8-9 and lifted off in anticipation of encountering the Ferrari. This precipitated his FW46 to lose grip and it started to snap, leading to Albon swiping Bearman at Flip 9 and subsequently ending up within the wall at Flip 10.
Within the fast aftermath, Albon was heard to consult with Bearman as an “fool” over the radio. Nevertheless, the Anglo-Thai driver modified his ideas on the incident.
As a substitute, he feels that Ferrari may have carried out extra to warn Bearman – working as an FP1 rookie driver for Austin winner Charles Leclerc – of the scenario, and that the younger Briton was caught out by the sooner closing speeds in F1.
“I believe he received informed, listening to the radio, very late that I used to be arising behind him,” Albon mentioned.
“He tried his finest to hurry up into the 2 or three high-speed corners, we caught one another on the worst second on observe you could.
“I believe there was a 100km/h distinction by way of velocity. I do not blame myself, however I do not suppose it is all on Ollie.
“I believe he may have been informed a bit higher, and naturally he is new, the closing speeds in F1 are a lot increased than F2. However it’s not his fault.”
The incident was investigated by the stewards, however deemed to be unfit of additional motion; the report acknowledged that “each drivers agreed that Bearman’s positioning was not unreasonable, however was unlucky because it was near Albon’s line. Had Bearman been barely additional down the observe it will not have resulted in an incident. All events agreed that it was a racing incident.”
Following the extreme harm to his Williams, Albon didn’t participate within the second follow session as in depth repairs continued all through the run-time of the session.
Reflecting on the misplaced working, Albon mentioned that he hoped using FP2 as a Pirelli tyre check would mitigate the harm to his weekend, as drivers collaborating ran with unmarked 2025 prototype tyres.
“Two laps is irritating – we have got numerous work to do tomorrow,” Albon added.
“However hopefully [FP2 is] much less essential than a standard weekend, clearly FP2 was a Pirelli check. So in some methods, presumably much less realized from different groups as a result of they weren’t working tyres from this yr.
“I am hoping that it simply means the shortage of observe time is much less compromising.”
