Headjar explains the “nightmare” seatbelt pain in Japanese GP qualifying

Pain with your seatbelt almost put racing bulls formula 1 driver Isac Hadzar Out in Q1 for Japanese Grand Prix, a “incredible” lap fell away from discomfort before completing the lap.

Hadjar was heard on the radio complaining about an unspecified cockpit issue in the FP3, and reported in the first part of the merit that the problem was again because he tried to break into Q2.

It was revealed that the French driver’s seatbelt was very tight, but he was unable to relieve pain in Q1 as he did not have time to get out of the car to change the belt. This was fixed in the interim, but when he cleaned the first merit barrier.

Talking to Sky Sports F1, Hudzar said that he was to be pulled through the pain and was pleased with his attempt to go to Q2 – which later ranks another F1 Q3 appearance and seventh position on the grid for Japanese GP.

“It was a bad dream,” said Hadzar. “I pulled through the bus; honestly, I am really proud of me, whatever I did in Q1, I was with me, incredible.

“I directly realized in T3. I ‘Okay, it’s not okay’, and I really crashed almost. But I’m fine. (Between sessions) I had to jump out, and jump back.”

While talking to the media including Motorsport.com, Hadzar said: “In Q1, you don’t have time to jump back, so I had to deal with it and drag through Q2. But when I returned to the car, I put the belt back, it was all good. It was just pain.”

Headjar eventually qualified in the seventh, matching his results with Chinese Grand Prix and dropped the new team-mate Liam Lawson And new red bull recruitment Yuki Sunoda,

The 2024 F2 title runner -ups reported that he slowly started receiving the brewer through the session, and felt enough to take more risk with his driving to feel enough confident in the car by Q3 -which eventually put it up. Lewis Hamilton On the grid.

The headjar told Sky Sports F1, “I was still not happy with everything, whatever we had launched, we made a good improvement with balance, with settings, and honestly the car simply came alive, the last lap, that the last lap,” the header said Sky Sports F1. “It was fantastic, to be honest; I could not grow very fast.

“You feel something different when you know this is the last lap of Q3. You are preferring, ‘I am just a small adding’ and you are just expecting it.

“It is very high of attention, but yes, I was at 100% and I was not before, so I just managed to become brave enough to make an additional step.”

Photos from Japanese GP – Practice and Qualification