News Details

Van der Garde: I had nowhere to go

Giedo van der Garde is okay despite taking a hard hit that put him out of Sunday's Japanese GP. Battling with the Marussias for track position at the start, there was contact between the Caterham driver and Jules Bianchi that resulted in both going off. Van der Garde, though, took the brunt of it as he slammed nose first in the tyre wall at pace. The Dutchman was, thankfully, not hurt in the crash. "My start was ok but going into Turn One I was squeezed between both the Marussia cars and had nowhere to go," he said. "I lost my front wing in contact with Bianchi and then the car went straight off and into the wall. "It was quite a heavy impact but I'm ok. "Obviously...
Full Story »
11y ago from PlanetF1.com 0
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

Van der Garde ‘had nowhere to go'

Caterham F1 Team Giedo van der Garde says he had ‘nowhere to go'...
11y ago from F1Zone.net

Caterham drivers rue misfortune

Caterham F1 Team Caterham drivers Charles Pic and Giedo van der Garde were...
11y ago from F1Zone.net

FP1 crash 'didn't compromise us too much' – van...

Giedo van der Garde says that his mid-session crash during first practice...
11y ago from RichlandF1.com

van der Garde Excited For Japanese Grand Prix Race...

Giedo van der Garde will be lapping up the atmosphere as he prepares to...
11y ago from TheCheckeredFlag....

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

Juncos Hollinger shows off new-look livery for 2025...

Juncos Hollinger Racing unveiled a new look for the 2025 NTT IndyCar...

IndyCar takes over promotion of Nashville event

IndyCar’s Music City Grand Prix will be promoted internally by IndyCar...

Scott McLaughlin on track to repeat Supercars success...

After spending the last four years moving up the ranks in the NTT IndyCar...

Christian Lundgaard hails ‘pure racing’ aspect of...

Christian Lundgaard is beginning his fourth full season driving in the...

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Sebastian Ogier does it again! Venit,  vidit, vicit.

Sebastian Ogier and Vincent Landais overcame everything that Rallye Monte...

Neuville fined 10K for WRC rule breach

No description available...
11h ago from Motorsport.com

Popular On GunnersToday.com

Arsenal in pole position to sign 15-G/A ace, Premier...

Arsenal are in pole position to sign the Rosenborg midfielder Sverre...
1h ago from CaughtOffside.com

PGMOL: Video evidence proves Lewis-Skelly was high and...

PGMOL says the foul which resulted in Myles Lewis-Skelly's controversial...
2h ago from SkySports.com

70m offer made: Arsenal improve bid for 21 G/A star...

Arsenal have reportedly improved their bid for RB Leipzig striker Benjamin...
2h ago from CaughtOffside.com

Comments

Hottest News

Recent News


2014 GPToday.com
GPToday.com is not responsible for the news headlines and associated descriptions and images it indexes, the content of externally linked sites or the comments & postings of its users.

This website is unofficial and is not associated in any way with the Formula One group of companies. F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B.V.