Nyck de Vries believes the penalty that price him his first Tremendous Formulation factors end at Fuji is a results of a “domestic-specific” interpretation of the principles governing contact.
In his third and ultimate stand-in look of the season for Group Impul, ex-Formulation 1 racer de Vries completed eighth on the highway, making up 9 locations from his grid place.
Nonetheless, a five-second time penalty awarded for making contact with Kenta Yamashita exiting Flip 1 as they battled over ninth place on lap 32 of 41 meant that de Vries dropped right down to eleventh within the ultimate outcomes.
That matched his outcome from Saturday’s opening race, when he fell two tenths of a second shy of overhauling Kondo Racing’s Yamashita for the ultimate level in tenth.
Whereas glad together with his efficiency, de Vries identified the distinction between his model of occasions in his battle with Yamashita and people of the stewards, and feels the transfer would have been deemed authorized in classes exterior of Japan.
“I’d name the [penalty] determination very domestic-specific, made by people who find themselves watching 100 metres away from the nook, which is totally different from my view,” stated de Vries.
“If you happen to watch the footage, it’s clear that on the apex I’m virtually half a automotive size in entrance of [Yamashita]. I’m on the traditional line, so I’m accelerating on the optimum level, so I’ve no likelihood to again out as a result of I want to make use of all of the observe.
Nyck de Vries, ITOCHU ENEX TEAM IMPUL
Picture by: Masahide Kamio
“He accelerates to try to recuperate the missed floor, however he’s going for a niche that isn’t there. I’m at most lock, and he’s coming from the skin and hits me.
“I simply really feel unhealthy for the crew as a result of they’ve had a troublesome season they usually deserve it.”
De Vries added that hopes Tremendous Formulation will undertake a extra worldwide method to the principles that govern wheel-to-wheel fight in future.
“Folks have requested me what I take into consideration Tremendous Formulation and the way it can turn into much more related to Formulation 2 and Formulation 1, and I reward the collection, as a result of the vehicles are nice and the racing is nice,” he stated.
“However this sort of rule that has nothing to do with worldwide racing doesn’t make sense to me.”
De Vries’ restoration into the factors was all of the extra outstanding as he was caught up in a second-lap incident involving Iori Kimura and Atsushi Miyake at Flip 10.
That compelled the Dutch driver into the pits to switch his entrance wing, though the ensuing security automotive meant he was in a position to restart on the tail of the sphere.
Nyck de Vries, ITOCHU ENEX TEAM IMPUL
Picture by: Masahide Kamio
An additional security automotive interval was referred to as when Yuji Kunimoto tapped Kazuya Oshima right into a spin at Flip 1 then allowed de Vries to pit below warning and make up additional locations.
“Our tempo was excellent in that first stint,” mirrored de Vries. “[After the contact] we had been overtaking a automotive virtually each lap, so we had been making floor anyway, after which the second security automotive performed into our fingers.
“Really on the primary lap, I used to be already forward of [Ayumu] Iwasa. Many of the floor I misplaced with the entrance wing change, I already made up earlier than the second pitstop, as a result of I got here out behind Kamui [Kobayashi] and Iwasa was simply forward of him.”
Toyota junior Hibiki Taira will take over the #19 Impul automotive, which was pushed earlier within the yr by Formulation 2 champion Theo Pourchaire and Lexus IMSA common Ben Barnicoat, for subsequent month’s season finale at Suzuka.
Taira took the automotive’s solely factors end of the yr to date on Tremendous Formulation’s earlier go to to Fuji in July, when he completed ninth.
