Is this the beginning of Antonelli’s bad streak?or is it just a bug are they more important? This is one of the moments that was expected to come… Pressure, bad luck or unknown situations for a teenager who is still 19 years old.
Kimi took responsibility for having aborted ‘incorrectly’‘ his last lap in qualifying for the Austrian Grand Prix, which cost him the first row and sent him to fourth place. or that or was he more honest and prudent and thought that with a yellow flag, it was not legal risk a penalty, or the integrity of a detained pilot in a loophole. But it seems that he did know the rule and that he saw two flags and not one and with that everything changes. The return in that case is suddenly invalidated by the regulations
In the final seconds of qualifying, Max Verstappen crashed at Turn 9, causing the yellow flags to appear. Antonelli mistakenly believed that they were double yellows.
“I saw a double yellow flag, so it was probably my mistake but I aborted the return and that was it,” Antonelli told the international press in Spielberg.
“I heard ‘yellow, yellow’ (on the radio), but I was looking at the commissioner and I probably misinterpreted it; I saw two flags instead of one and aborted. “It was also difficult to see why the sun was shining on my faceand I only looked at the commissioner, because the panel turned yellow, but of course, you don’t know if it was one or two yellow flags,” he said about what happened.
“I would have been a tenth behind (Russell), so I would have been in the front row, but it still wouldn’t have been enough for pole,” he consoled himself as best he could
“Was a car against the wall in a fast corner, so I don’t understand why the double yellow flag wasn’t put out immediatelybecause it is a very fast curve. If you go off the track at the same timeyou can end up very badly, so it was a little confusing, but hey, that’s how things are,” Kimi closed.
That reflection is more in line with what the majority of pilots think for safety reasons, something that has been looked at a lot since Bianchi’s death in Suzuka. Giving the stewards the right to the ‘rascal’ does not comply with the spirit of the rule, although Russell’s pole position is valid, it was not completely clean.
