Alpine’s Jack Doohan, Kick Sauber’s Gabriel Bortoleto and Purple Bull’s Liam Lawson have mirrored on their battling drives in Saturday morning’s Dash on the Shanghai Worldwide Circuit, after the three rookie drivers all skilled contact out on monitor.
For Doohan, the Australian driver made last-lap contact with Gabriel Bortoleto, relegating him to the again of the sphere – a transfer which noticed him introduced in entrance of the stewards, who handed him a ten second time penalty and two factors on his licence (though having completed P20, the penalty had no impact on Doohan’s race consequence).
Making a lunge to the within of Flip 14 underneath DRS, Doohan was unable to sufficiently sluggish and switch his Alpine, leading to contact with the rear of Bortoleto’s Kick Sauber, pitching the Brazilian right into a spin.
Whereas Williams’ Carlos Sainz was in a position to keep away from the mayhem, Kick Sauber’s Nico Hulkenberg then broken his entrance wing with secondary contact to Doohan’s Alpine.
