De Vries still not behind cause of crash: 'No idea what happened'
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Nyck de Vries had a disappointing qualifying session in Baku. The Dutchman seemed to have good speed in free practice, but things quickly went wrong in qualifying. The AlphaTauri driver was already in the wall in the third corner in his first run.
GPblog is present in Baku this weekend and asked Nyck de Vries if he was okay after his hard crash in Baku, the Dutchman said he was feeling fine. De Vries stalled on braking for turn three and then ended up in the wall. The AlphaTauri had decent speed, as his teammate Yuki Tsunoda showed with eighth place.
De Vries' problem?
During the first and only practice, De Vries suffered from brake problems. In qualifying afterwards, the AlphaTauri driver was soon in the wall after braking went wrong in turn three. The Dutchman does not want to jump to conclusions regarding a brake problem.
"To be honest, I don't know exactly what happened. I think the problems were obvious prior to the session, but I don't like to draw conclusions without having seen what actually happened. We will look at it tonight and analyse it. Tomorrow is a new day and we will try to learn from this poor performance. I don't want to suspect anything. I just want to go back and see what happened," De Vries told GPblog among others.
Good speed
The AT04's speed was good and all the more painful was the Dutchman's crash. "The car looks very competitive this weekend and I think if we look honestly at our first three weekends, we were not in the same position as we were this weekend. So it is very disappointing that this is a weekend where we could outperform ourselves and then something like this happens," De Vries expressed his frustrations to GPblog and others.