- Japanese GP - FP2
Gutierrez apologises for practice shunt
Esteban Gutierrez has apologised to Sauber for crashing during the second practice session at the Japanese Grand Prix.
Gutierrez lost control of the car at the high-speed Spoon corner and crashed into the barriers damaging the front wing. He admitted he made a mistake and is hoping to make up for it in qualifying on Saturday.
"Unfortunately, I lost the car in the second practice session in turn 13," he said. "With the speed you get there it was difficult to avoid an impact. I am really sorry for the team, and I am sure we will recover for qualifying. In the first practice session we were struggling with the set-up of the car. I think we found a good compromise in the second session, and we will analyse the collected data to get everything ready for tomorrow."
Giampaolo Dall'Ara, head of track engineering at Sauber, said nothing was obviously wrong with the car before the accident.
"Unfortunately, Esteban lost the car in turn 13. On the data we could not see anything wrong with the car, but we still have to analyse what happened. We also had issues again with the power unit on Adrian's car. He had to come into the pits during the first high fuel run in the second free practice because he lost power. We were able to fix the problem by taking oil out."
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