Pascal Wehrlein was stuck in hospital until 11pm on Friday night after his heavy HyderabadEPrix FP1 crash - but recovered to take fourth in the race 🏁 Here's the FormulaE points leader's view of a rollercoaster weekend ⬇️
Wehrlein arrived in India as the championship leader on the back of his stunning double win in Saudi Arabia, and Porsche was again considered the team to beat around the 2.8km circuit despite the expected threat from Jaguar.
The German driver didn’t leave the hospital until 11pm on Friday night and continued to report pain on race day, where he charged from 12th on the grid and 15th on the opening lap to finish in fourth place, just behind his Porsche teammate Antonio Felix da Costa. “I'm okay, I was already feeling better but I'm okay. I'm happy about the race,” Wehrlein told Autosport.
“I think after today, we kind of paid back for us. It's fine, we can be happy and go home with a good feeling.”Photo by: Andrew Ferraro /Speaking to German TV, he added: “I was at the hospital until 11pm yesterday, had a few more scans and a check-up because I had quite a bit of back pain. But so far everything is fine.
Since Porsche couldn’t immediately determine the cause of the incident while practice was still running, it elected to withdraw its other three cars from the session - including the two Andretti-run entries. While not entirely happy with the performance of the Porsche package on a race weekend Jaguar seemed to be ahead of the opposition, Wehrlein felt the German manufacturer achieved the maximum that was possible in the situation.
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