Bird: Mexico City Formula E weekend “destroyed” by de Vries

Sam Bird has hit out at fellow Components E driver Nyck de Vries, claiming the Dutchman “destroyed” his Mexico Metropolis weekend and that the FIA must take motion in opposition to his driving.

The McLaren driver was left aggrieved on the end of the qualifying group stages on the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez circuit on Saturday as he was baulked on his closing run by de Vries via the final nook.

Chicken did not progress to the duel levels after not enhancing his time on a humid however ever-drying monitor and the incident was investigated by the stewards, with de Vries slapped with a three-place grid drop.

Within the race, the pair discovered themselves collectively once more on the fringes of the highest 10 with de Vries lunging up the within of Chicken into the double-right of Flip 5 within the early working.

Chicken then made mild contact with the second Mahindra of Edoardo Mortara immediately forward, inflicting a puncture as Chicken was handed a five-second time penalty for the incident.

It prompted the Briton to query the stewards’ choice in addition to de Vries’s driving techniques typically, telling Autosport: “I really feel like, no offence, however Nyck’s destroyed the weekend whether or not he meant to or not.

“Our weekend has been very pushed again due to the way in which that he drives within the race, which is over-defending, it’s an excessive amount of.

“I might name for the FIA to stamp it out as a result of it is a win-win for him. They do not stamp it out and he simply stays in entrance of everyone and that is why he can proceed to get away with it.”

Chicken was ultimately categorized 18th on a tough weekend for McLaren having entered the occasion main the groups’ standings, as Taylor Barnard misplaced tenth place because of a five-second penalty for “leaving the monitor and gaining an enduring benefit”.

De Vries, in the meantime, was capable of report a second factors end on the bounce after taking eighth in Mexico to go along with his sixth from the Sao Paulo season-opener.

When requested to touch upon Chicken’s remarks, de Vries mentioned: “It’s Components E, everybody all the time has quite a lot of feelings after the race however we take our factors.”

He additionally added the qualifying incident had not been intentional and that he had been handed the mistaken data from his workforce.

“You may hear again to the radio,” mentioned de Vries.

“I requested the workforce what sort of sequence Sam was on and the workforce was of the idea that he was on the identical run sequence so I by no means thought I might impede him. That’s simply unlucky.”