Furious Mazepin accuses Schumacher of breaking F1 team protocol in the first quarter | F1

The couple’s right to the track position in the last corners blocked the track and hindered Aston Martin’s Sebastian Vettel, who could not progress from Q1.

Mazepin left the pit lane before Schumacher, but was overtaken by his team-mate later in the lap.

The Russian believes that Schumacher has broken the protocol, as with many teams in the pit lane, every weekend, which driver leaves the pits first in qualifying.

Commenting on the incident, Mazepin said: “To be honest, I’m really annoyed because traffic rules shouldn’t have been so difficult within an F1 team on one weekend you are the first car, next weekend you are the second car.

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“This weekend it was my turn to be the first car and I overtook the first car once at Imola when I was second and I got some nonsense from the team and now this has happened to me, the second team, him overtakes me and rams me into traffic and deliberately fucks my last attempt in quali so i’m not happy because if you do it once and he didn’t know it, but twice that is wanted and i don’t like it when there is tension , that was not supposed to be like that.”

Schumacher gave his side of the story back, revealing that he had received the team’s permission to overtake Mazepin.

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“We talked to the team about it, I drove through the pit lane, my tires cooled down, so I usually do faster out-laps,” explained Schumacher. “In this case Nikita did a slow out lap, so I asked for overtaking maneuvers, which gave me the OK, which I did. Early enough.

“I also had Lando between us, so I don’t really understand the confusion in the last corner. Of course that messed up a few things for everyone. “

The 2020 F2 champion says he apologized to Vettel, who has been a good friend and mentor to him since joining the sport earlier this year.

“Of course, I just apologized,” he added. “I hope he knows he’s the last person I want to be in the way. Unhappy.”