George Russell was one of the participants in the incident, which ended in a dramatic accident involving Alfa Romeo driver Guanyu Zhou, and although the British car was practically undamaged, he was not allowed to restart.
George Russell: “The most important thing is that Zhou is doing well, this is the most important. We decided to start on hard tires because I made a mistake in qualifying and we started in the wrong position.
But we decided to take a gamble, Put Hard, assuming that this would give some opportunities to move forward in the later stages of the race, but it turned out that the rubber of the hardest compound had no grip at all in cold weather conditions, and it was not possible to heat it up.
At first I hit Zhou’s car – and that was it. As soon as the red flags appeared, I got out of the car to make sure Zhou was okay. And when I came back, for some reason I couldn’t start the car and ran to the team pits, telling the marshals not to touch the car. But when he came back, she was already on the tow truck. And once you get outside help, you can’t restart.
That’s a shame because I only had a flat tire and I have no doubt that we could have competed for 6th place. We tried to challenge the FIA’s decision, but they only insisted. I think it was one of the rarest situations…’
Source: F1 News
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