Alpine team boss considers his drivers' crash a 'racing incident'
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Alpine had a horror race in Australia. Pierre Gasly was in fifth place for a long time and was seemingly on his way to finish there. However, after the second restart, things went completely wrong: the two Alpines hit each other, after which both could not continue.
Alpine team boss sees race incident
The second restart was full of craziness, to say the least. Team boss Otmar Szafnauer saw this too, telling Formula1.com: “It was just chaos out there; had Pierre not gone wide in Turn 1 – but a lot of people did – then I think he would have been further up the road."
Gasly will have to watch out, though: he already has ten penalty points, and 12 points would see the Frenchman suspended for a race. According to his team boss, it is right that the former Red Bull driver was not punished: “Who’s to blame for something like that? Hindsight, you look back at it and say great, shouldn’t have crashed, but there are times you can’t avoid it. Things happen in front of you where you have a decision of ‘I either run into this or run into that’ because you can’t avoid it.”