Sipping a coffee one minute, to being drafted in for your F1 race debut the next. Nyck de Vries has had a busy day! ItalianGP 🇮🇹
The Dutchman had already been in action during the Italian Grand Prix race weekend with a different Mercedes-powered team, that being Aston Martin.
Ahead of FP3, Williams announced Albon was sadly suffering with appendicitis and therefore could not take part in the remainder of the race weekend. Asked by Sky Sports F1 if he could have expected the weekend he has had, De Vries replied: “Certainly not, and when I received the call I was actually up in Paddock Club for an appearance and literally drinking some cappuccino and chilling and waiting.which asked me to come down ASAP and then I was forwarded to Williams, so exciting times obviously. I feel very sorry for Alex and I hope he is okay and wishing him a speedy recovery.
“Hence why I’m not entirely satisfied because I think our session wasn’t quite as smooth as I would have liked and we made some mistakes and wasn’t perfect, but nevertheless I think I can also be quite satisfied with what we did.”on debut, narrowly making Q2 after his final Q1 time was deleted for track limits. His final Q2 attempt then ended with a lock-up at the start of the lap.
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