It's the proverbial catch 22 for both the team and Fred. If Fernando really had some issue of his own, he doesn't want to admit that. If the car had a problem the team doesn't want to admit that.

If he was driving really slow like Jense did the last race, maybe it would have been safer.


Hopefully it was a freak thing, and both driver and team are ok. They have a lot of work to do, even with Fred driving. Only time will tell how things develop. They are somewhat at a disadvantage of only having that one team with that power unit, so a lot rests on Honda. The team couldn't get the best power unit in the field to help them much last year, so personally even if Honda sorts the engine I think they will have to continue with the chassis if they want results.