THE TALE OF THREE ROOKIES
Giovinazzi said afterwards, “I want
to apologize again to the team. They did
a great job to get the car ready. It was a
shame that I crashed again in the race. A
learning lesson – I just want to forget this
weekend quickly.”
Thankfully Stoffel Vandoorne did
not end up in the litter or in the wall, but
his race was also short as the woeful
McLaren-Honda package again did him no
favours.
On Saturday the Belgian qualified
16th, half a second off the pace of his
teammate Fernando Alonso and by lap 17,
of the race, he was climbing out of his car
with a DNF penned next to his name.
Vandoorne explained, “On lap 17 we
lost power – I don’t really know exactly the
reason – but I think it was a fuel problem.
It’s a shame we couldn’t get to the finish
– the potential was there and the car felt
quite competitive in the corners compared
to the cars I was racing against.”
It was evident that the McLaren-Honda
package is way off where it should be, he
added, “I felt the power drop and I could
feel immediately