Kimi Antonelli<\/a> but, just as the Safety Car peeled off the track and racing resumed, the rookie barreled into the back of the Mercedes, retiring immediately.<\/p>\n\u201cRacing in these tough conditions means that it\u2019s always a little bit of a gamble out there,\u201d Hadjar explained following his collision. “At the start of the race, I was following Charles [Leclerc] and it seemed we had a good pace; we were on the same strategy, but it wasn’t the right one.<\/p>\n
\u201cDuring the laps we spent behind the Safety Car, I couldn\u2019t see much due to the heavy rain and the tyre temperature dropped.<\/p>\n
“After the restart, I wish I could have maybe had a bit more margin, but when I saw the red light of the back of Kimi\u2019s car, it was already too late as there was just zero visibility. Thankfully, I\u2019m okay.\u201d<\/p>\n
The incident also sent Antonelli into retirement as well, with both drivers emerging unscathed from what could have been a nasty crash.<\/p>\n
Lawson was also fortunately uninjured from his collision, and was left rueing what he believed was a missed opportunity for the team at Silverstone.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is a shame, I think we would have had a very good car today and obviously in a race like this, anything can happen,” he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just an opportunity that we\u2019ve now missed out on, and I wasn\u2019t really trying to be aggressive, I had a really good start, a path sort of opened up for us and I just wanted to survive the first lap.”<\/p>\n
Following the British Grand Prix and their double DNF, Racing Bulls have dropped from sixth to seventh in the standings<\/a>, overtaken by Kick Sauber, and are now on equal points with Aston Martin, who scored with both cars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Racing Bulls had a day to forget at the British Grand Prix, with both Liam Lawson and Isack…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[4199,707,4200,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-248401","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-f1","9":"tag-formula-1","10":"tag-formula1","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114818498356467860","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}