AUSTRIAN GP – RACE RESULTS

This afternoon’s Austrian Grand Prix was a difficult race for Scuderia Ferrari. Kimi Raikkonen was involved in a frightening accident with Fernando Alonso on the opening lap, luckily with neither driver sustaining any injury. Sebastian Vettel was also out of luck: a problem with the left rear wheel nut at his pit stop complicated his race, as his stop was inevitably too long and he rejoined in fourth place. From then on the German chased down Felipe Massa, but despite gradually closing on the Brazilian, the bottom step of the podium eluded him and he had to settle for fourth [via ferrarif1.com]

Final Results and Standings:

Pos	Driver	Car	Gap
1	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1h30m16.930s
2	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	8.800s
3	Felipe Massa	Williams/Mercedes	17.573s
4	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	18.181s
5	Valtteri Bottas	Williams/Mercedes	53.604s
6	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India/Mercedes	1m04.075s
7	Pastor Maldonado	Lotus/Mercedes	1 Lap
8	Max Verstappen	Toro Rosso/Renault	1 Lap
9	Sergio Perez	Force India/Mercedes	1 Lap
10	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull/Renault	1 Lap
11	Felipe Nasr	Sauber/Ferrari	1 Lap
12	Daniil Kvyat	Red Bull/Renault	1 Lap
13	Marcus Ericsson	Sauber/Ferrari	2 Laps
14	Roberto Merhi	Marussia/Ferrari	3 Laps
–	Romain Grosjean	Lotus/Mercedes	Retirement
–	Carlos Sainz	Toro Rosso/Renault	Retirement
–	Jenson Button	McLaren/Honda	Retirement
–	Will Stevens	Marussia/Ferrari	Retirement
–	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	Collision
–	Fernando Alonso	McLaren/Honda	Collision

DRIVERS’ STANDINGS:

Pos	Driver	Points
1	Lewis Hamilton	169
2	Nico Rosberg	159
3	Sebastian Vettel	120
4	Kimi Raikkonen	72
5	Valtteri Bottas	67
6	Felipe Massa	62
7	Daniel Ricciardo	36
8	Daniil Kvyat	19
9	Nico Hulkenberg	18
10	Romain Grosjean	17
11	Felipe Nasr	16
12	Sergio Perez	13
13	Pastor Maldonado	12
14	Max Verstappen	10
15	Carlos Sainz	9
16	Marcus Ericsson	5
17	Jenson Button	4
18	Fernando Alonso	0
19	Roberto Merhi	0
20	Will Stevens	0

CONSTRUCTORS’ STANDINGS:

Pos	Constructor	Points
1	Mercedes	328
2	Ferrari	192
3	Williams/Mercedes	129
4	Red Bull/Renault	55
5	Force India/Mercedes	31
6	Lotus/Mercedes	29
7	Sauber/Ferrari	21
8	Toro Rosso/Renault	19
9	McLaren/Honda	4
10	Marussia/Ferrari	0

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QUOTES

From crash.net – Kimi: “I had wheelspin and suddenly went left. That’s about it really. The wheels spun really aggressively there and I don’t know what caused it, but the result is always the same. It’s not normal but it happened, that’s the way it is. The car didn’t have any grip. It’s dangerous, but racing is dangerous always. It must have been worse for the guy that was standing there and we must have come close to hit him.”

From espn.co.uk – Kimi: “It’s not ideal, but it happens. Obviously it’s not normal and I was surprised when it happened, but it is what is. We didn’t expect it to happen, we were expecting to race into the top ten, but something obviously happened.”

From @miezicat1 – Q: Can you remember a similar incident in your career? Kimi: “No, that was very strange. I was in the 3rd or 4th gear and never I would have expected such a reaction from the car. Something happened there. Now we have to find out what was there.”

From ferrarif1.com – Kimi: “I don’t know exactly what happened before the crash, I had some wheelspin in an unusual place. I was at a quite high speed, suddenly went left and end up there. I did not see anything coming, everything happened very quickly. Unfortunately at that time my race was over, it has been a poor weekend, now we have to think about next one.”

Kimi interview after crash:

Kimi Raikkonen interview after incident https://t.co/7QphnjyoHe #AustrianGP

— Ky (@FiftyBuckss) June 21, 2015

Fernando Alonso on the incident

From motorsport.com – Alonso: “He was sliding a lot out of Turn 2. I think there was a big difference between the soft and supersoft tyres. He started sliding, going left and right, left and right, and I was on the left and at one point he lost the car and I was there. It was a bit weird, because if someone hits you on a corner that can happen, but that the cars are sliding so much in fourth and fifth gear was a bit strange. This time it happened to him and I was in the wrong place. I saw I had a Ferrari below me in the mirrors, but I didn’t know where he was. I thought I was alone. I tried to get out as quickly as possible to see if he was okay. I saw him removing the steering wheel so I was relieved.

From crash.net – Alonso: “I’m OK. I just went to the medical centre because it is mandatory under certain G-force. We had 34Gs on the impact, I think. It was a very unfortunate accident. I started well today and made a lot of places in turn one and two, then Kimi was with the prime tyre so his exit had a lot of wheelspin and we were all overtaking him left and right, then he lost the car to the left and I was on the left. We went both on the wall and I was lucky not to hit him in the head, because looking at the replay I was braking but my wheels were in the air, so I was close with him. Luckily we are both fine. It was strange – wrong place, wrong time. A strange incident, he lost the car in fifth gear, very low grip.”

From espn.co.uk – Alonso: “Me and Kimi are both OK and that’s the important thing.”

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OTHER STUFF

No action warranted – both Kimi Raikkonen and Fernando Alonso are innocent as far as the accident is concerned, according to FIA.

Should’ve seen it coming tbh lol #AustrianGP #Kimi7 pic.twitter.com/3yuRMQTpiw — KimiRäikkönenSpace (@EvenstarSaima) June 21, 2015

Kimi’s onboard start from Canal+ tv:

Austrian GP 2015 – Start Onboard Räikkönen and Ricciardo https://t.co/AwudpMvvwc what’s that round thing Kimi puts on the car?

— Verena (@miezicat1) June 25, 2015

The crash onboard Kimi:

Amateur footage at trackside:

Race start and replay https://t.co/8SYQW43aI8 #AustrianGP

— Ky (@FiftyBuckss) June 21, 2015

here it looks even more scary 😱 and yes, that guy standing there was lucky too! http://t.co/ZkoE3v9d8Q — Verena (@miezicat1) June 21, 2015

The problem with Kimi is a aggressive mapping that Ferrari uses in the first lap of the race and in the return to the track after the Pit

— RoboCoPG® (@RoboCoP_G) June 21, 2015

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