Daniel Ricciardo narrowly escaped a flying tyre after a chaotic opening lap crash in the Brazilian Grand Prix. The left-rear tyre of Abon’s blue-liveried car came detached in and flew in the direction of Daniel Ricciardo’s AlphaTauri further back. It appeared that Albon, who started 13th, was nudged by the Haas of Nico Hulkenberg. Hulkenberg’s car was largely unharmed though the tyre bounced narrowly to the left of him before the RIcciardo scare. Ricciardo turned frantically left in reaction to the stray rubber bouncing its way towards him. ’I tried to miss it but the tyre was in the air and it clipped my rear wing,’ he said over the radio.’.

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