AlphaTauri driver Daniel Ricciardo sustained a damaged hand in Friday’s apply and can miss this weekend’s Dutch Grand Prix, Pink Bull advisor Helmut Marko confirmed to Motorsport.com.
Marko mentioned Pink Bull reserve driver Liam Lawson will make his F1 debut rather than Ricciardo.
“He is damaged one thing in his hand, so he will not race. Lawson will drive,” Marko mentioned. “It is troublesome for him. It is a disgrace as a result of the automobile is nice right here.”
Ricciardo crashed at Flip 3 at Zandvoort after McLaren’s Osautomobile Piastri spun out in entrance of him. Piastri hit the tire wall early on on the banked flip and Ricciardo, with nowhere else to go, adopted him into the limitations and crimson flags had been waved.The eight-time Components One winner took the glove off his left hand and held it near his physique as he climbed out of his automobile.
“We will verify that Daniel Ricciardo has been transferred to the native hospital for additional checks following his crash in FP2,” the FIA mentioned in an announcement.
Ricciardo, a 34-year-old Australian, lately had changed Nyck de Vries at AlphaTauri and returned to motion on the Hungarian Grand Prix final month.
McLaren’s Lando Norris denied house hero Max Verstappen an ideal Friday by retaining the dominant Pink Bull driver off the highest of the timesheets in second apply for the Dutch Grand Prix.
Verstappen had set the tempo within the opening session when he lapped Zandvoort’s seaside circuit, the grandstands packed along with his orange-clad followers, with a finest time of 1 minute 11.852 seconds.
Norris was quickest general, nonetheless, with a lap of 1:11.330 within the late afternoon, 0.023 faster than the double Components One world champion.
Verstappen is chasing a ninth win in a row on Sunday to equal now-retired Sebastian Vettel’s decade-old report.
The 25-year-old leads Mexican teammate Sergio Perez by 125 factors after 12 of twenty-two races.
Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso was second quickest in session one, 0.278 slower than Verstappen, with Mercedes seven instances world champion Lewis Hamilton third.
Perez was fourth on these timesheets, 0.471 slower than his group mate, with Williams’ Alex Albon fifth and Norris sixth.
Albon was third in session two with Hamilton fourth and AlphaTauri’s Yuki Tsunoda fifth with Alpine’s Pierre Gasly sixth and Perez seventh.
Dominant Pink Bull have gained each race this season, and the final 13 in complete, whereas Verstappen is chasing his third successive Dutch Grand Prix win.
Haas’s Nico Hulkenberg spun off into the gravel, nudging the tire wall along with his entrance wing, and introduced out crimson flags within the first session.
Aston Martin’s Lance Stroll, who skipped media duties on Thursday because of an an infection, did not set a lap time within the first session after reporting a ‘humorous noise’.
The group investigated a suspected energy unit concern and Stroll returned to set the eighth finest time in session two.
Israeli Robert Shwartzman changed Spaniard Automotivelos Sainz at Ferrari for the opening session, according to laws requiring groups to run younger drivers throughout the season, and was nineteenth and a pair of.951 off the tempo on medium tyres.
Sainz was solely sixteenth in session two with teammate Charles Leclerc eleventh.
