Bruno Senna believes the lap one collision with Ginetta's Charlie Robertson cost Rebellion Racing a certain victory in the Bapco 8 Hours of Bahrain.
Senna started the race from pole position, but was spun round by the #5 Ginetta G60-LT-P1 – AER of Charlie Robertson, who lost control in the second corner. Commenting on the incident after the race, the riled up Brazilian expressed his anger over the situation.
"I left him too much room, clearly because I should have just pushed him off the track and he would have been compromised completely for turn two," Senna said. "But I left racing room for everybody and then he completely took me out. I mean, I know he made a mistake and lost control of the car, but hey, this is LMP1.
Last time, in China, I braked in front of a GT, the GT crashed into me and I got penalized, I got a drivethrough penalty for this. Now the guy completely destroys my race and it's okay."
Senna also questioned the decision to not penalize Robertson for the lap one incident.
"It's not my place to tell if it's a penalty, but the fact is we are all being judged by the same token," he continued. "I don't think I made a mistake, but if I made an error of judgement and I got a penalty for someone crashing into me in China, when someone crashes into me here, even if there was a mistake from their part, then they should be judged with the same token."
"He hit us in the wheel, which took a shock in the gearbox, so we don't know if we had a problem in the gearbox because of that. We had gear change issues during the first stint already, so it's impossible to know what happened.
The last time I had this was a year ago, so honestly… today we could have won this race. We had the pace in the car, and apart from this, the team deserved a race win, so it's frustrating."
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