Ted Kravitz has full sympathy for one team after disastrous Hungarian GP

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The Hungarian Grand Prix couldn’t have gone any worse for the Alpine F1 team this weekend.

Speaking on Sky Sports coverage of the race, Ted Kravitz has sympathised with the French team.

Alpine will be having nightmares about Sunday’s race start as both of their cars were immediately eliminated from the race.

It all started with a terrible getaway for Zhou Guanyu in his Alfa Romeo after a career-best fifth place start.

He tumbled down the order heading down to turn one before locking up going into the right-hand hairpin.

Zhou hit the back of Yuki Tsunoda’s AlphaTauri and the Japanese driver was forced into the back of Esteban Ocon.

The French driver’s car was briefly airborne but crashed down to earth via his teammate Pierre Gasly.

Daniel Ricciardo on his return to F1 was also caught up in the carnage but managed to avoid any damage.

Alpine’s weekend at the Hungarian Grand Prix was over before it even began.

Although both cars managed to crawl back to the pits, the team were unable to fix the damage caused by the incident.

Alpine have nightmare Hungarian GP weekend

Sky Sports F1 reporter Ted Kravitz summed up the race pretty well for the team, simply saying: “That’s a complete waste of a weekend for these poor Alpine guys.”

It’s the second weekend on the bounce that Alpine have had a double retirement.

Ocon suffered a hydraulics leak at Silverstone that saw him last just 12 laps.

Pierre Gasly was battling for points but had his race ended by the clumsiness of Aston Martin driver Lance Stroll.

It’s been reported that Ocon’s shunt was so heavy at the start of today’s race that it snapped his seat in half.

Despite reports that he went to the medical centre to get checked out, he was in fact just checked over by Alpine’s physios.

Alpine will hope that next weekend’s race in Belgium will be more successful than the Hungarian GP.

As McLaren continue to improve, Alpine are quickly slipping away from the top half of the Constructors’ Championship.