Williams Racing driver Alex Albon has been disqualified from qualifying for the Australian GP forward of the principle race, as a big sufficient gas pattern could not be extracted from his automobile.
View PhotosAlex Albon left his Williams FW44 stranded on the monitor after qualifying yesterday.
Williams Racing had a tricky Saturday this weekend, because the group’s driver Nicholas Latifi crashed out but once more in qualifying, after a contact with the Aston Martin of Lance Stroll for which Stroll was later penalized. However, Williams’ miseries have not ended there, because the group’s different driver Alex Albon has now been disqualified from the qualifying for the Australian GP.
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A dramatic second on the finish of Q1 ????#AusGP #F1 pic.twitter.com/vx3TthAaUH
— Formula 1 (@F1) April 9, 2022
The Thai driver had solely managed to qualify P16 within the crimson flag inflicted session and was pissed off with that outcome anyway, as he believed his Williams FW44 had sufficient tempo to make it to Q2. He additionally had a 3 place grid drop penalty from Jeddah for inflicting a collision, which meant he would’ve began right this moment’s race in nineteenth. However, qualifying following, Albon was penalized as his automobile did not have sufficient gas to return the 1 liter gas pattern to FIA for high quality checks as dictated by Article 6.5.2 of the FIA ​​Formula 1 Technical Regulations.
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Alex Albon was pissed off with the crimson flags within the qualifying which disadvantaged him of a Q2 look this weekend
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Williams group engineers additionally had Albon cease his automobile after his run in Q1, maybe citing the low gas degree within the automobile. But regardless of Albon stopping the automobile and pushing it out of the best way, the remaining gas degree was nonetheless too low for a big sufficient pattern.
He at all times pushes laborious within the automobile, and out of it!
, @alex_albon #AusGP #F1 pic.twitter.com/q0rWYJihGn
— Formula 1 (@F1) April 9, 2022
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Alex Albon shall be allowed to begin the race from the again of the grid in P20, as his teammate shall be parked proper in entrance of him in P18. The final 2 rows shall be accomplished by Aston Martin drivers Sebastian Vettel and Lance Stroll, because the British group has had continuous struggles all through the weekend.
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