'Looking back, it is nice it did not hit me.'
Ducking his head as a loose tyre came hurtling toward him at the Brazilian GP, Daniel Ricciardo initially felt “relief” at not being injured but then “disappointment” as he saw the damage to his AT04.
The Thai-British racer was the victim of a three-in-one situation at Turn 1 where Kevin Magnussen moved to the right only to collide with his teammate who in turn took Albon out of the race.As he went sliding off the track into the run-off area on the right, one of his tyres broke loose and went bouncing backwards, almost clearing Ricciardo’s AlphaTauri only to take out the rear wing.
He was lucky it wasn’t anything more serious as he revealed he ducked his head fearing the “frisbee” tyre could hit his cockpit.“I felt I was getting through it and then saw a tyre off the rim coming at me like a frisbee through the air and it started getting closer. Returning to the pits he pulled into the AlphaTauri garage to retire the car but with the race red-flagged the team made the necessary repairs and he was back out,
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