FIA F3 race winner Dino Beganovic has described the 12 crimson flags in the course of the two Macau Grand Prix qualifying classes as “embarrassing”, having been caught up in one of many many clashes.
The Ferrari Driver Academy member was on the prime of the timesheets when he encountered the stranded automobile of Rintaro Sato, who had crashed at Moorish.
He was unable to keep away from the TGM machine, which had already been struck by Beganovic’s Theodore Prema team-mate Alex Dunne – the pair having been fully unsighted.
This triggered the primary of seven crimson flags of a disjointed session with Beganovic finally tumbling right down to fifteenth on the grid for the qualifying race. Dunne, who was fifth quickest on the time, will begin 18th.
“It was irritating – there was plenty of adrenaline going by means of me at that time,” Beganovic instructed Motorsport.com.
“It makes it much more heart-breaking whenever you’ve completed all the pieces proper within the session and the entire occasion – we haven’t been crashing, we haven’t been doing silly stuff. To be punished like this, by another person’s mistake, it hurts.
“It’s additionally fairly embarrassing what occurred and in Q1 that so many crimson flags got here out – it’s no surprise we obtained known as for a second drivers’ briefing.”
Dino Beganovic, Prema Racing
Photograph by: Macau GP
Motorsport.com understands that the necessity for improved driving requirements was mentioned at this briefing with a proof of what to keep away from in addition to reinforcing how their actions had been having an impression on different classes on the occasion, such because the bikes – which had their observe cancelled on account of the 2 hours it took to finish the 40-minute Method Regional qualifying session.
Regardless of the powerful begin to his occasion, Beganovic – who crashed out when preventing for third in final 12 months’s grand prix – continues to be optimistic of turning his fortunes round.
He says his early-session qualifying tempo exhibits what “we’re able to doing and what we got here right here for”.
“We all know in Macau, something can occur – ranging from fifteenth, nothing is closed, all of the doorways are nonetheless open,” he added.
“The hill that we have to climb obtained a bit of bit steeper however I’m positive we will do it, we’ve obtained the tempo and I believe we’ve obtained a tempo benefit in comparison with the automobiles round us.
“It’s not going to be as simple to overhaul as within the F3 automobile, as we had the DRS, however I believe with our tempo we will nonetheless transfer ahead.
“The goal [for Saturday’s qualifying race] is to place us within the combine for tomorrow [main race] and in a good place to combat for the win.”
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