Karun Chandhok insists his accident in the closing few laps of the Monaco GP with Jarno Trulli looked worse than it was.
The Hispania driver entered La Rascasse ahead of Trulli, however Trulli dived up the inside, unfortunately there wasn’t quite enough room for the Lotus. The only possible outcome was a collision.
Trulli’s Lotus was launched over the top of the Hispania, narrowly missing Chandhok’s head before coming to a rest atop one another.
“Jarno just tried something silly really,” Chandhok told Reuters. “I don’t think he would have even had enough steering lock to get around the corner from the angle he was coming at. He would have done the old Schumacher 2006 parking move.
“He has apologised… I quite like Jarno, he’s a nice guy and I think when he apologises he knows he’s screwed up.”
The Indian driver’s efforts to protect his head with his hand didn’t really do much, however a last minute head duck avoided some contact between him and the Lotus.
“Fortunately I was a bit lucky as I ducked and he went over my head,” Chandhok explained. “It didn’t actually touch me but it looked worse than it actually was.
“But it was very frustrating because that was probably my best race of the year in terms of pace and we were racing the other two new teams.”
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