Nyck de Vries believes the penalty that value him his first Tremendous Method factors end at Fuji is a results of a “domestic-specific” interpretation of the principles governing contact.
In his third and ultimate stand-in look of the season for Workforce Impul, ex-Method 1 racer de Vries completed eighth on the street, making up 9 locations from his grid place.
Nonetheless, a five-second time penalty awarded for making contact with Kenta Yamashita exiting Flip 1 as they battled over ninth place on lap 32 of 41 meant that de Vries dropped right down to eleventh within the ultimate outcomes.
That matched his outcome from Saturday’s opening race, when he fell two tenths of a second shy of overhauling Kondo Racing’s Yamashita for the ultimate level in tenth.
Whereas glad together with his efficiency, de Vries identified the distinction between his model of occasions in his battle with Yamashita and people of the stewards, and feels the transfer would have been deemed authorized in classes outdoors of Japan.
“I’d name the [penalty] choice very domestic-specific, made by people who find themselves watching 100 metres away from the nook, which is completely different from my view,” stated de Vries.
“If you happen to watch the footage, it’s clear that on the apex I’m nearly half a automobile size in entrance of [Yamashita]. I’m on the conventional line, so I’m accelerating on the optimum level, so I’ve no probability to again out as a result of I want to make use of all of the monitor.
Nyck de Vries, ITOCHU ENEX TEAM IMPUL
Picture by: Masahide Kamio
“He accelerates to try to recuperate the missed floor, however he’s going for a spot that isn’t there. I’m at most lock, and he’s coming from the skin and hits me.
“I simply really feel unhealthy for the staff as a result of they’ve had a troublesome season they usually deserve it.”
De Vries added that hopes Tremendous Method will undertake a extra worldwide strategy to the principles that govern wheel-to-wheel fight in future.
“Folks have requested me what I take into consideration Tremendous Method and the way it can turn out to be much more related to Method 2 and Method 1, and I reward the sequence, as a result of the vehicles are nice and the racing is nice,” he stated.
“However this sort of rule that has nothing to do with worldwide racing doesn’t make sense to me.”
De Vries’ restoration into the factors was all of the extra outstanding as he was caught up in a second-lap incident involving Iori Kimura and Atsushi Miyake at Flip 10.
That compelled the Dutch driver into the pits to exchange his entrance wing, though the ensuing security automobile meant he was in a position to restart on the tail of the sector.
Nyck de Vries, ITOCHU ENEX TEAM IMPUL
Picture by: Masahide Kamio
An additional security automobile interval was referred to as when Yuji Kunimoto tapped Kazuya Oshima right into a spin at Flip 1 then allowed de Vries to pit beneath warning and make up additional locations.
“Our tempo was excellent in that first stint,” mirrored de Vries. “[After the contact] we had been overtaking a automobile nearly each lap, so we had been making floor anyway, after which the second security automobile performed into our palms.
“Truly on the primary lap, I used to be already forward of [Ayumu] Iwasa. Many of the floor I misplaced with the entrance wing change, I already made up earlier than the second pitstop, as a result of I got here out behind Kamui [Kobayashi] and Iwasa was simply forward of him.”
Toyota junior Hibiki Taira will take over the #19 Impul automobile, which was pushed earlier within the yr by Method 2 champion Theo Pourchaire and Lexus IMSA common Ben Barnicoat, for subsequent month’s season finale at Suzuka.
Taira took the automobile’s solely factors end of the yr to date on Tremendous Method’s earlier go to to Fuji in July, when he completed ninth.
