Haas F1 driver Mick Schumacher blames spray for hampering his visibility ahead of his Friday-ending crash in opening practice at the JapaneseGP
After being caught out by spray thrown up by a car ahead, Schumacher failed to spot the puddle that resulted in him aquaplaning into the barriers at the Dunlop curve.
"You are trying to figure out the track itself, obviously it’s my first time here, so I was trying to see where the puddles are because that's something that is very different in every place you go to, Schumacher explained. “And unfortunately here the water seems to accumulate quite a bit in certain areas and it is a matter of understanding that.
"But it was I think more from the fact that we had a car ahead which threw up a lot of spray, hence we didn't really see much of where to put the car. “And on top of that we were in a mode which we tried to learn as much as we can from to be able to have all the right settings for the race.”
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