Awful Austria

Remember the incident in Spain? We’re assuming this race must have been karma for that.

Pastor Maldonado and Felipe Massa qualified 7th and 9th, respectively, for the Austrian Grand Prix. The duo were running smoothly until lap 21, when Maldonado locked up his brakes entering turn 1 and beached the car in the gravel trap. Afterwards, Massa began to drop dramatically, sinking through the field as far as 12th when he was forced to retire on lap 50, an oddity due to the team electing to focus on reliability over speed.

Upon further inspection, the team concluded Massa’s troubles were to be attributed to faulty wiring in the car. This marks the first time this season that both Manor drivers failed to finish a race. “It’s [disappointing]. Disappointing but that’s how weekends go sometimes,” team principal macus16 stated. “Oh well – back on the Horse for next weekend.”

Next week, the Model F1 World Championship heads to France.

Total Red Bull(shit)

Just weeks after the bull incident in Spain, it seemed as if the racing gods frowned upon the Manor garage for the race at the Red Bull Ring.

Meanwhile, Red Bull’s sister team Toro Rosso has been excluded from the championship after being a no-show for the fourth time this season. So we guess it’s safe to say this weekend was a total farce for those with some sort of connection to Red Bull.