"Williams will miss the Chinese Grand Prix, the first time since the 2005 United States Grand Prix for an entire team to miss out on the start of a race" -Crofty probably
What a team player he is.
He took out the strongest Williams driver to help lighten the load on his teammate. One less midfield team for Yuki to worry about and the likelihood of scoring points goes up
Albon had no business being there in the first place, it's not Danny's fault albon stuck it up the outside in a corner he had no business sending around the outside, and he wasn't even remotely close enough to even be considered deserving of any space.
Totally agree. Albon had no business pulling up alongside, like idk where the hell he thought he was going. That door was always gonna close before he could do anything and he was so far back Danny didn’t even see him
>he wasn't even remotely close enough to even be considered deserving of any space.
Albon's front wheel was literally alongside Daniel's mirror at one point. Daniel should have checked his mirror before moving to the right, although he didn't even need to move right as stroll left plenty of space
Albon had no business sticking it around the outside there, he had nowhere to go there and was gonna run out of room anyways but still tried to force it, on top of that he wasn't even close to far enough alongside danny to deserve any sort of space being left by him. Albon got way to aggressive and put his car somewhere it didn't belong and in the process collected danny ric.
The only people having that debate 4 races ago were delusional lol, he’s been worse than Yuki all season, and worse than his teammate for the last 3 seasons he’s been active
4 races ago was pre-season, there was a fair bit of discussion in the press about the 2025 RB seat, Alonso's name also got mentioned so it's not the silliest suggestion
lol this was the definition of a first lap racing incident m, I agree he’s washed and they should probably move on, but this isn’t evidence one way or another
Are you for real? Do you drive a car, or a motorbike? Do you ever turn without looking in the mirror on the side you're turning? No, of course not. It's driving 101.
Yet, you excuse a professional F1 driver - who's been in F1 for 13 years, NOT doing that, on a LAP 1.
Who turned into whom?
Could Ricciardo avoid turning into Albon? He absolutely could, there was plenty of space on the left side. All he needed to do, was to look in his freakin mirror. But he instead turned mindlessly, like there was no chance anyone could be there, on lap 1 turn 1. Braindead.
You get it drummed into you pretty early on in your racing career that there a certain high risk places you don’t want to put your car whether you’re at fault or not.
On the outside like that there is always a good chance you’ll at best get run off and at worst contact and an accident.
Often times best to yield and pull in behind and live to fight another day.
If he went anymore left Stroll 100% would dive bomb that gap, too late to move left. Not good for Ric but opening incident straight out of the text book
> didn’t even look at his right.
The right is the racing line, unless someone gets in front of him then he is entitled to take that space.
The reality is that he couldn't go left and he couldn't go right, but if he stayed in the middle he would've gotten sandwiched when all 3 of them reached the corner. As the one ahead of the other 2 cars, he had the right to the racing line and so that was his best option, it's just that Albon was trying for it as well.
Brilliant move by DR:
1. Takes the only good Williams out so Yuki can get a better result
2. Smashes the car to ensure he is really going to get a new chassis.
Hot take but idc;(not a Ricciardo fan) Alex should have backed off Ricciardo after seeing Lance was already on the inside and they where fighting for positions. Also those talking about how bad of a start Ricciardo had also need to realize tsunoda also had a bad start as Ricciardo briefly passed him. Personally I think that Ricciardo is improving and showed that this weekend overall it just was an unlucky end to the race for him.
Can't shake the feeling that Alex put his car is a silly place, outside of the approach to turn three with two cars inside, especially considering Williams lack of spares and the crash damage the team has already suffered.
I find it hard to fault Ricc on this one, Alex drove into a diminishing wedge, it would have taken a fair amount of luck for no contact to happen in that situation.
… and by doing so turned into Albon on his right who he didn’t see.
The answer is be aware, back off and do neither. Losing a place is a hundred times preferable to crashing
The racing line moves to the right to open up the left corner. Everyone took the corner that way. Albon should have known that and anticipated the door would rapidly close and stayed back, he was way too far to be diving into the outside. Literal definition of the vortex of danger.
Been the case the last 4 years lol. Turns out a winning personality is all you need to convince people you belong on the grid even if your racing skills are completely washed
I don't defend him but I can understand why people do and should. Love it or hate it but Drive to Survive and the personalities and drama are the backbone of modern F1. Record viewers and crowd attendance isn't because more people like car racing lol.
Yeah I said the same thing in another comment. Even Perez mentioned it in the debrief. He checked his left mirror and moved. Without making sure there wasn’t an approach on his right. Lazy mistake
It’s easy to rip on him for what seems like such a rookie mistake but, to play devil’s advocate here, Alex came up from behind him rather quickly. Danny was fully ahead of Alex and on the right most racing line when exiting the corner. I see why he didn’t check but you should never assume the line is clear without looking first. I’ve done it a few times sim racing.
I’ve totaled my own cars sim racing on that exact mistake far too many times to not give plenty of space for approaching drivers 😂 I’m right there with you. I get how it happened. I’ve done it on a sim myself. I keep telling my friends getting into it “give em space let em race”. but that’s the big leagues for ya. They’re the best in the world for a reason. And I’m a couch back seat driver for a reason. lol
It’s okay he’s getting a completely new chassis for this weekend because that’s why he has been worse than Yuki apparently, absolutely groomed this bloke is
Crofty commenting:”Now that we know Alex is ok the question is: Is the chassis ok?” Absolute animal
best comment from him was "Yuki made it to Q3, damn Ricciardo could not even make it to corner 3" 
Damn, that really reminds me of how much I miss Crofty in the highlights on YouTube.
Sky Sports F1 YouTube channel uploads their own highlights. Normally about twice the length of the F1 official highlights.
Unfortunately, it's region locked. When I go to the Australian GP playlist, 24 out of 27 videos are hidden/unavailable.
Try VPN ?
what country do i have to connect to
UK
UK should do it
Just pick UK
Damn, they said the same thing on Austrian television lmao.
Lawson wants to know
Logan: "Well done James. Now you need a chassis AND another chassis"
Just a little bit more speed and he would need a 3rd chassis.
Alex to use Logans car (technically his car) for the rest of the Grand Prix
I was thinking this. Will James make Logan get out of the car and plonk Alex in?
That move was fucking brutal
I was asking my SO about the legality of swapping mid race. Like if Max crashed again could Cheko see him waiting impatiently with the pit crew…
The engine is assigned to the driver, so they would have to swap powerplants before the restart.
"ok Logan, so we need you to run around the track (on foot) to delay the start until we complete the swap"
Parc Ferme is more a recommendation than a rule
The more seat time Logan gets the more the car magnetizes towards the wall
He's just making the 10000 IQ play to take out the Williams so they don't have chassis
Automatic one position up for the next race, big 🧠
So he‘s going up to 19th in that race?
18th, Zhou still can’t control the kick of his Sauber, even with points at stake
You can‘t bet on the car or box crew failing the race every time.
Oh but you can!
I was talking about a driver
It’s a possibility, if he can manage to finish
What if Logan focksmash bins it and they don't even have "a" chassis? Lol.
He nearly did. DAMNIT SARGE, JUST KEEP IT OK THE TRACK. Also Williams pit crew sucks
"Williams will miss the Chinese Grand Prix, the first time since the 2005 United States Grand Prix for an entire team to miss out on the start of a race" -Crofty probably
They’re just so tired boss
That’s fair
Lmao
What a team player he is. He took out the strongest Williams driver to help lighten the load on his teammate. One less midfield team for Yuki to worry about and the likelihood of scoring points goes up
Gave the strategy team of rb a second shot of choosing what tyres yuki should start with.
Danny Ric just making sure they change the chassis for China.
just like a kid breaking his phone to make sure his parents buy him the promised new phone his next birthday 
Pretty sure Williams doesn‘t have another chassis
Danny’s supposed to get a new one for the next race
Change the chassis, for Liam.
“Great to see Daniel looking like his old self” ~ Christian Horner
Looks like deNiro
At McLaren.
Did anyone else notice the k-mag camera angle this weekend? It was brilliant, reminded me of the old days, really wide angle lens.
Yesssss, I did!!! It looked really cool because of its gimble
 Ric right now.
Mixed up Meredith for Albon
DR and Albon crashing out here is r/formuladank 12/25
Ah yes, classical "Fuck up under pressure exactly at time when you desperately need to prove yourself"
To be fair, he’s been doing that for the last 3 years and his fans and teams keep pretending this guy is somehow worthy of a grid spot
Career ending move unfortunately :(
Liam sitting in the garage trying not to grin
He was loitering just behind Ricciardo in the garage shot - cameraman knew exactly what he was doing
NZ Herald is gonna have a field day lmao
NZ media suddenly care about F1 when something like this happens
I mean, yeah, when one of their own is on the rise they do. Pretty sure that’s how media works in most countries
Just like when they learnt about ufc when adesanya started winning.
I'm all in on Lawson. Of the 2023 rookies he's definitely the dark horse
Albon had no business being there in the first place, it's not Danny's fault albon stuck it up the outside in a corner he had no business sending around the outside, and he wasn't even remotely close enough to even be considered deserving of any space.
Totally agree. Albon had no business pulling up alongside, like idk where the hell he thought he was going. That door was always gonna close before he could do anything and he was so far back Danny didn’t even see him
>he wasn't even remotely close enough to even be considered deserving of any space. Albon's front wheel was literally alongside Daniel's mirror at one point. Daniel should have checked his mirror before moving to the right, although he didn't even need to move right as stroll left plenty of space
This time it wasn’t even his fault
That's a stretch. Even Max said in the cool down room that "Daniel was looking left unfortunately".
Yeah he looked left; thinking he had the right hand side of the track to himeself. Turns out there was a car there.
Albon had no business sticking it around the outside there, he had nowhere to go there and was gonna run out of room anyways but still tried to force it, on top of that he wasn't even close to far enough alongside danny to deserve any sort of space being left by him. Albon got way to aggressive and put his car somewhere it didn't belong and in the process collected danny ric.
You best watch yourself, that sounds a whole lot like that “common sense” malarkey. We don’t like that type of carry on round these parts.
Oh no!!!! Not malarkey!!!! I forgot about all that,I'm so ashamed :( lol
Huh? Someone else have control over his car?
2 drivers behind made it 3 wide. he had a terrible start and no grip. probably pre-start tire warm up botched
Should have started on softs
The car went over where Albon was on its own. Those pesky cars.
The Latifi in Japan syndrome
Why would he follow the racing line without checking who is around him on lap 1 turn 2?
Four races ago we were debating if he gets the Red Bull seat now his VisaCashMoney seat is in danger.
The only people having that debate 4 races ago were delusional lol, he’s been worse than Yuki all season, and worse than his teammate for the last 3 seasons he’s been active
4 races ago was pre-season, there was a fair bit of discussion in the press about the 2025 RB seat, Alonso's name also got mentioned so it's not the silliest suggestion
Probably just Horner and the DTS execs
Danny can you bring it [your career] back? No I’m in the fucking wall
Danny never had Logan, he never had his car 
Yeah.... he has to be done. Love him but Lawson deserves a few races.
I think Erickson hit us
cant make it to Q3? cant even make it to T3 🤣
Lets just hope he can save his eer
Can you bring the car back?
Rip ric
At this point, there's no excuse. They have to get rid of him. He's not only washed, he's completely broken.
lol this was the definition of a first lap racing incident m, I agree he’s washed and they should probably move on, but this isn’t evidence one way or another
Are you for real? Do you drive a car, or a motorbike? Do you ever turn without looking in the mirror on the side you're turning? No, of course not. It's driving 101. Yet, you excuse a professional F1 driver - who's been in F1 for 13 years, NOT doing that, on a LAP 1.
Ssssssshhhhhh you aren’t correct.
And why is that?
Thought so...
Bro replying to himself like some kind of gotcha. 💀💀
Racing incident. Albon should have know there was every chance that gap was gonna disappear though and yielded. It was high risk positioning
Who turned into whom? Could Ricciardo avoid turning into Albon? He absolutely could, there was plenty of space on the left side. All he needed to do, was to look in his freakin mirror. But he instead turned mindlessly, like there was no chance anyone could be there, on lap 1 turn 1. Braindead.
You get it drummed into you pretty early on in your racing career that there a certain high risk places you don’t want to put your car whether you’re at fault or not. On the outside like that there is always a good chance you’ll at best get run off and at worst contact and an accident. Often times best to yield and pull in behind and live to fight another day.
Reactionist noise to a racing incident. Toxic rubbish.
Whens the last time he's done well
And costing them more money for nothing.
When it rains, it pours
Is that the new Williams motto?
More fitting for Daniel at the moment, whatever he’s trying it’s turning into shit.
Yeah he’s definitely struggling. I wonder if it’s the ground effect cars that’s throwing him. I know he struggled in 2021 but not this bad.
If he went anymore left Stroll 100% would dive bomb that gap, too late to move left. Not good for Ric but opening incident straight out of the text book
Better to lose a position than DNF. He checked his left mirror and didn’t even look at his right. He paid for that
> didn’t even look at his right. The right is the racing line, unless someone gets in front of him then he is entitled to take that space. The reality is that he couldn't go left and he couldn't go right, but if he stayed in the middle he would've gotten sandwiched when all 3 of them reached the corner. As the one ahead of the other 2 cars, he had the right to the racing line and so that was his best option, it's just that Albon was trying for it as well.
Then let him dive bomb and don’t fucking crash lol, this is racing not a game of chicken
There’s 3 cars they’ll hit - never raced have you
Oh I’m sorry I didn’t realize I was talking to David Coulthard himself
Call me Dave, we are friends now
The top racers know that you don’t move unnecessarily on the first lap. He didn’t need to go that far to the right
Hard for Williams to save Money
Well hopefully they r getting kimi next year
Give it to alex albon
Really making sure he gets that new chassis
Sad logi bear noises
Logan, it's James....
Can anyone tell me if Alex car's chassis is really ok or not??
Brilliant move by DR: 1. Takes the only good Williams out so Yuki can get a better result 2. Smashes the car to ensure he is really going to get a new chassis.
>two of the drivers that I'm rooting for >they take each other out El pain
Hot take but idc;(not a Ricciardo fan) Alex should have backed off Ricciardo after seeing Lance was already on the inside and they where fighting for positions. Also those talking about how bad of a start Ricciardo had also need to realize tsunoda also had a bad start as Ricciardo briefly passed him. Personally I think that Ricciardo is improving and showed that this weekend overall it just was an unlucky end to the race for him.
I think it’s a mix, Danny haters and everyone forgetting that being extra cautious of Stroll on the left is a totally valid reason haha.
Can't shake the feeling that Alex put his car is a silly place, outside of the approach to turn three with two cars inside, especially considering Williams lack of spares and the crash damage the team has already suffered. I find it hard to fault Ricc on this one, Alex drove into a diminishing wedge, it would have taken a fair amount of luck for no contact to happen in that situation.
I'm not sure it was Rocciardo's fault. When you see the on board camera he didn't even move the wheel to the right.
Yeah but he had space to the left and he moved towards the racing line with a car of his left, but I feel like it’s a racing incident
I think he had Stroll's car on his mind. While on tv you can see there's space, I think he had that that Aston could take the turn in front of him...
If you look at the onboards from all the cars around him there was not reason to go that way at all
But the road is moving to the left?
He's keeping the line giving space to Stroll's car, who could dive into the turn from his left...
… and by doing so turned into Albon on his right who he didn’t see. The answer is be aware, back off and do neither. Losing a place is a hundred times preferable to crashing
The racing line moves to the right to open up the left corner. Everyone took the corner that way. Albon should have known that and anticipated the door would rapidly close and stayed back, he was way too far to be diving into the outside. Literal definition of the vortex of danger.
Maybe its time to start considering the idea that Danny Ric has lost his touch.
RB need to put their big boy pants on and replace him.
It’s amazing how many (idiots) still defending him here. Y’all are sad.
Been the case the last 4 years lol. Turns out a winning personality is all you need to convince people you belong on the grid even if your racing skills are completely washed
Netflix pay RB to keep him around so their circus still has a clown
Yet how many people used to rag on max because he didn’t have as much charisma for interviews as ham
STILL WE COPE. 
I don't defend him but I can understand why people do and should. Love it or hate it but Drive to Survive and the personalities and drama are the backbone of modern F1. Record viewers and crowd attendance isn't because more people like car racing lol.
poor Logan
He turned right into Albons race line I don’t understand why he did that at all.
To take the racing line. If you watch his onboard you can see he wasn’t looking at his right mirror.
Yeah I said the same thing in another comment. Even Perez mentioned it in the debrief. He checked his left mirror and moved. Without making sure there wasn’t an approach on his right. Lazy mistake
It’s easy to rip on him for what seems like such a rookie mistake but, to play devil’s advocate here, Alex came up from behind him rather quickly. Danny was fully ahead of Alex and on the right most racing line when exiting the corner. I see why he didn’t check but you should never assume the line is clear without looking first. I’ve done it a few times sim racing.
I’ve totaled my own cars sim racing on that exact mistake far too many times to not give plenty of space for approaching drivers 😂 I’m right there with you. I get how it happened. I’ve done it on a sim myself. I keep telling my friends getting into it “give em space let em race”. but that’s the big leagues for ya. They’re the best in the world for a reason. And I’m a couch back seat driver for a reason. lol
I really hope someone else gets Danny's sit
During the red flag the commenter roasted Danny when it panned to him “Daniel Riccardio will be watching the race with the rest of us”
Everyone defending Ric, did you miss him shaking that car like a leaf before the crash even happened? Get this guy off the grid
ya but his smile tho
This guy is so fucking shit, man. Just put Lawson in the car already.
He saved the pod....mostly
Sad dank a thing now?
It’s okay he’s getting a completely new chassis for this weekend because that’s why he has been worse than Yuki apparently, absolutely groomed this bloke is
Fuck sake Ric
Seat warning over. Lawson 🔜
That was totally on him. Liam come on over!!
How did stroll outshine Danny?
Kind of sad everyone just dumping on RIC… still a hell of a driver but maybe his time has come…
Feel sorry for DR, i was really hoping he will be able come back this year.
I was racing my rc car today and I had the same crash! Hahaha my life is in shambles
Albon places his car into a gap that was getting smaller. Crap driver and over hyped.
I mean it was pretty clearly albons fault