FIA F3 race winner Dino Beganovic has described the 12 pink flags through the two Macau Grand Prix qualifying periods as “embarrassing”, having been caught up in one of many many clashes.
The Ferrari Driver Academy member was on the high of the timesheets when he encountered the stranded automotive 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 utterly unsighted.
This triggered the primary of seven pink 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 a number of adrenaline going by me at that time,” Beganovic informed Motorsport.com.
“It makes it much more heart-breaking once you’ve performed all the things 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 pink flags got here out – it’s no surprise we received known as for a second drivers’ briefing.”
Dino Beganovic, Prema Racing
Picture by: Macau GP
Motorsport.com understands that the necessity for improved driving requirements was mentioned at this briefing with an evidence 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 apply cancelled because of the 2 hours it took to finish the 40-minute Formulation Regional qualifying session.
Regardless of the robust begin to his occasion, Beganovic – who crashed out when preventing for third in final yr’s grand prix – remains 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 received a little bit bit steeper however I’m positive we will do it, we’ve received the tempo and I believe we’ve received a tempo benefit in comparison with the vehicles round us.
“It’s not going to be as straightforward to overhaul as within the F3 automotive, 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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