Helmut Marko has described Isack Hadjar’s response to crashing out on the formation lap on the Australian Grand Prix as “a bit embarrassing”.
Hadjar misplaced management at Flip 2 in moist circumstances when making an attempt to generate tire temperature on the best way to the grid, crashing into the barrier and failing to make the beginning of what was his debut race. The Racing Bulls driver was then pictured strolling down the paddock in tears, returning to his staff distraught at his error.
“Isack Hadjar did somewhat little bit of crying after his crash,” he informed Austrian broadcaster ORF. “That was a bit embarrassing.”
Nevertheless, Marko’s feedback weren’t reciprocated by nearly all of the paddock, after Lewis Hamilton’s father Anthony stopped the rookie – who has made no secret of the actual fact Hamilton is his hero – on his return from the incident to supply phrases of encouragement.
“Once I noticed it occur, my coronary heart simply sank for him,” Hamilton informed Sky Sports activities. “Not only for him, for his dad and mom, for the whole lot they’ve carried out to work onerous to get to this one level, and it’s prefer it’s snatched from you.
“I simply felt horrible for him, so I believed ‘you already know what, I must go and inform this child hold your head excessive, stroll tall, you’re gonna come again’. I feel he’s an exceptional driver. I feel there’s extra to come back from Isack than we most likely have seen this weekend.”
Hadjar himself defined the incident was attributable to a need to attempt to be aggressive in the best way he warmed his tires earlier than a moist first race begin in F1, and stated he felt horrible for his automotive crew however was grateful for the gesture from Anthony Hamilton.
“(Hamilton stated) simply hold your head excessive,” Hadjar stated. “I feel he is aware of what robust occasions are and I feel he sees a rookie placing it within the wall on not even lap one, he is aware of how robust it feels. He got here to consolation me, I feel it was a very nice gesture from him. However however it feels actually onerous and I really feel actually sorry for the staff.”
Crimson Bull staff principal Christian Horner was one other who was supportive of Hadjar’s response to the crash, regardless of the severity of his error ruling him out of the race earlier than it had even began.
“It was fairly heart-wrenching to see him so gutted in his first grand prix,” Horner stated. “I feel the positives he must take out of it when he displays on the weekend. He carried out very properly by means of the practices and the qualifying.
“You overlook that these guys are simply children actually. Clearly quite a lot of emotion for him, however I feel when he strips it again, there’s an terrible lot of positives he can take out of the weekend. He’s received many shiny days forward of him.”
