Sometimes, incidents in Formula 1 leave their mark on drivers’ minds when they visit the track on which they took place. It is no different for Alex Albon when he came to the Red Bull Ring with the DTM in an AlphaTauri car.
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The event that repeats itself in the Thai driver’s mind is his battle with Mercedes-Lewis Hamilton last year. As they raced around the track. Hamilton went inside to overtake Albon, but they had contact that turned Albon into the gravel area.
The 23-year-old has no bad blood against the 7-time world champion, but when he revised the track, he took the opportunity to attack himself.
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Albon jokes about the incident with Hamilton, who is still haunted him
Red Bull rolled onto the track in Austria in their DTM car because Alex wanted to give them a hot lap on the fast track. In response to her tweet, Albon replied, saying to watch out for a certain corner of the track where everything went under.
He said, “Turn 4 is coming back to chase me.”
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What exactly happened between Lewis and Alex?
The then Red Bull driver was supposed to achieve his first podium for the Milton-Keynes-based team last season. But there was a disaster on lap 61 of the race when Hamilton raced down, and on turn 4 they came together; Lewis made it, but Alex wasn’t so lucky when he hit the gravel court and lost his P2 place.
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Frustrated, Albon came over the team radio and said: “This guy is such a bad loser.”
However, this is not the first time the two have come together, as the same thing happened at the 2019 Brazilian Grand Prix. Albon is aiming for a place; but Lewis was in contact with him, causing him to go off the track and lose a podium.
Do you think we will see the underrated Thai driver in Formula 1 when Alex competes in the DTM with AlphaTauri? Let us know what you think in the comments below.
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