Matt Halliday has crashed out of the latest round of the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup at Budapest, Hungary. Though no fault of his own Halliday was part of a six car pileup on the first lap.
“We got a pretty good start but I was the innocent party in a big pile up. I don’t know whose fault it was.”
“ I was on the inside going down to turn four and gave everyone room just holding my line in the middle when suddenly someone came flying across the track and hit me in the door and there was four or five cars in the wall like being in a NASCAR race.”
His weekend started well when he was 10th fastest in practice but slipped to 13th in qualifying due to changing track conditions with the day a lot hotter than in practice. He also had difficulty finding a clear lap but felt he would have a car with good race on Sunday.
“This was a new track for me this week….I didn’t get the perfect lap. It was so close as it was in Hockenheim and the field has really tightened up.”
Nick Tandy (122 points) won the race, his second of the season and with that closes the gap to René Rast (112 points), who finished third behind Sean Edwards, to only 10 points now.
Halliday is in twelfth on 39 points with two more races in the series, the next being at Spa Francorchamps at the end of August.
