Aston Martin’s Lance Stroll has admitted to “frustration” after crashing out of qualifying for the Dutch Grand Prix on Saturday.
Stroll was on a flying lap in an early stage of Q1 when he dipped the left-rear wheel on the grass on the entry to Flip 13 and misplaced management of his automobile.
The Canadian was despatched spinning into the limitations and, though he was in a position to deliver again the hobbled automobile into the storage, the injury was too important for him to return to the observe.
The incident compounded a tricky Components 1 weekend at Zandvoort for Stroll, who additionally shunted the automobile closely at Flip 3 throughout second observe fon Friday.
The newest incident leaves him twentieth and final on the grid for Sunday’s race, having did not set a consultant lap previous to the accident.
Talking within the media pen, Stroll took full accountability for the crash.
“Nothing extra to say actually. It’s totally irritating and yeah, it sucks,” he instructed the media, together with Crash.internet.
“Simply tipped a wheel on the grass, yeah, simply misjudgment.”
He added: “I imply, it’s the worst feeling. I used to be snug within the automobile all through all of the observe classes, FP1, all these items. Simply how it’s.”
Requested if it was attainable for him to rejoin the session, he added: “No, the automobile was too damaged.”
Aston Martin mechanics have been already pressured to finish an prolonged shift on Friday when Stroll’s crash at Flip 3 left his AMR25 with important injury.
Requested if his qualifying incident was doubly irritating given what occurred in observe, he mentioned: “Yeah, yeah, it sucks for everybody. It is not a enjoyable day.”
Stroll’s teammate Fernando Alonso has proven robust tempo thus far this weekend, having set the second-fastest time in Friday observe and made it by means of Q3 in qualifying.
Requested how aggressive the automobile felt at Zandvoort, Stroll mentioned: “Actually robust, actually robust, yeah.”
