Red Bull’s Daniil Kvyat failed to start the season-opening Australian Grand Prix for the second year running, however, the Russian says he is coping better than in 2015.
“I’m glad Fernando is OK, it looked like a very bad accident and it’s a relief to know that he is alright. In terms of my day, it looks like an electronic issue put us out of the race before it started. I think Australia doesn’t seem to be the luckiest place for me so far.”
Kvyat pulled up early before the grid at the end of the formation lap, got out of the car and didn’t feature again in the race.
“The car just shut itself off – I guess it didn’t want to do the race today, but we’ll be back in Bahrain and we’ll start again from there! Last year it was very hard to take, not starting the race, but this year I’m a stronger person so I’ll be OK, these things happen, that’s life and that’s racing.”
Team principal Christian Horner explained the reason for his driver’s absence.
“It’s a shame that Dany wasn’t able to start the race today, he seems to be cursed here in Melbourne. He, unfortunately, had a CU-H failure on the power unit, but he’ll be back in Bahrain”.
