Liam Lawson was left stunned after being told he had effectively “killed” Nico Hulkenberg’s Audi in the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix – without even touching the car.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Hulkenberg retired on Lap 29 in Barcelona with an apparent engine issue, but speaking after the race, he revealed a freakish series of events involving Lawson’s Racing Bulls machine and a gravel stone flicked up by the New Zealander.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“He put a wheel in the gravel exit of Turn 12, kicked up a lot of gravel, and that gravel somehow, one stone pulled the emergency trigger on the left of the roll hoop,” Hulkenberg told media, including RacingNews365.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“It just killed the car. It was a total switch-off and game over.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“The car was dead, and then obviously I just coasted into the pit lane. There was nothing left; it was just a complete shutdown.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“I’ve never seen or heard about this, to be honest, in my career. It is very unlucky with the timing, as at the end, you see two cars dropping out [Kimi Antonelli and Charles Leclerc], and it is somehow that the racing gods don’t want us to score [points] yet.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Asked about his take on the situation, Lawson, who finished in eighth place for a fifth points finish from the first seven races, after a 10 second penalty to Franco Colapinto for ignoring yellow flags dropped the Alpine from eighth on the road to 10th, expressed his shock at the freak nature of the incident.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“Are you serious?” he told media when told about Hulkenberg’s incident.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“No way, oh, that is so unfortunate, and obviously I had no idea, and if I could perfectly aim for something like that, it would be quite impressive.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“But I had no idea, I just knew that he dropped out.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liam Lawson was left stunned after being told he had effectively “killed” Nico Hulkenberg’s Audi in the Barcelona-Catalunya…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3518,3521,3519,3522,3520,3517,3515,3513,3516,3514,111,139,69,3512,213],"class_list":["post-477529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}