With every other car done with their push laps in Q2 and having already seen the checkered flag, leaving only Fatih in the middle of a push lap, everyone on the pit wall was following his lap, going through the live data that kept coming in from the publicly available telemetry.
He was a rookie hyped up by Red Bull, who went so far as to sign him to the team and allow him a year off when he could have been gaining experience in F2. The moment he was eligible, they demoted a well-performing driver just to give him a debut days after he came of age on an unsuitable track, all so he would remain with them and not move to another team.
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"LOOKING AT THE TRACK MAP, IT SHOWS CARS ALL OVER THE TRACK, AND ALL OF THEM ARE ON THEIR COOLDOWN LAPS, RETURNING TO THE PIT LANE. IT IS A NIGHTMARE SITUATION FOR FATIH, BUT HE PULLS OUT THREE-TENTHS DESPITE THE INTERFERENCE AS HE NOW STARTS THE FINAL SECTOR.
