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Sebastian Vettel stated Method One was fortunate to keep away from “a special final result” when Lando Norris crashed out of qualifying in moist circumstances in qualifying for the Belgian Grand Prix.

Vettel was livid qualifying was allowed to proceed when it began to rain heavier firstly of Q3 and radioed his Aston Martin crew that the session must be red-flagged as a result of quantity of standing water on the circuit.

Shortly after his message, McLaren driver Norris misplaced management of his automobile on the strategy to the uphill Eau Rouge nook and crashed closely into the obstacles.

When advised of the pink flag on the time, Vettel stated on the radio: “Yeah? Properly what the f– did I say? What did I say!? Pink flags! Pointless.”

Vettel was the subsequent automobile by means of Eau Rouge and he slowed alongside Norris’ wrecked automobile to verify the English driver was OK, with each drivers giving one another a thumbs up.

Norris climbed out of his automobile and reported he was OK, though he has been despatched to hospital for X-rays to his elbow, which he was holding as he walked away from the automobile.

Vettel, who stated he spoke to FIA race director Michael Masi after the session, stated F1 wanted to do a greater job in such conditions.

“I feel Michael” [Masi] will not be happy with what occurred both,” Vettel advised Sky Sports activities.

“It is at all times straightforward to play Captain Hindsight. I feel we have to discover a approach that we hear extra to the knowledge that we’ve. Contained in the storage, it is very restricted, it is like looking of a window. Three kilometers that approach, I’ve no clue.

“After I went all the way down to Eau Rouge and up the hill, it was quite a lot of water and was calling for a pink flag. The reality is, the session mustn’t have began in any respect. So I feel the those who had been standing on the Kemmel Striaght, they had been within the rain and perhaps we must always have listened to these.”

When requested if he was indignant at Masi for not stopping the session, Vettel stated: “Offended… I feel it is very tough to [be]… it is at all times straightforward afterwards.

“However the primary factor is that we discovered from what occurred. It might have been a special final result with the crash. I feel we had been fortunate that nothing dangerous occurred.”

Vettel added that he felt “large” aid when Norris signaled that he was OK instantly after the crash.

Vettel felt Norris was powerless to do forestall the crash within the circumstances.

“There have been issues we might have performed higher, it is higher to be protected one time too many than one time too little,” Vettel stated.

“It is good that nothing occurred, that is the primary information, nevertheless it might’ve been a special final result for Lando. I am unsure there may be something he might’ve performed.

“In fact, we’re in management and you may say ‘if you happen to really feel unsafe, field.’ However it’s form of a bizarre scenario as a result of everyone seems to be in the identical scenario and you do not wish to get kicked out [of qualifying], you wish to progress. That call should not fully be as much as us.

“We delayed the session firstly when there was much less water so I am not fully positive why we simply did not begin the session. As I stated, it is at all times straightforward [to say] afterwards, however the primary factor is it would not occur once more.”