A war of words broke out between Malaysia's Alex Yoong and Kiwi ace Jonny Reid following the feature outing in Zhuhai, after the pair once again controversially came together on the race track – with the former coming off considerably worse.
Having already collided during the early laps of the feature race in front of Yoong's home crowd in Sepang three weeks ago, the Malaysian and New Zealand cars crossed swords once more on lap one in China, with the yellow machine spinning off into the barriers and out of the action, having completed just one racing lap all weekend.
“I haven't seen the replay or spoken to him yet, but from my point-of-view he just took me out,” Yoong raged afterwards, fierce in his criticism of his rival. “We were going side-by-side through a corner that was very wide and had plenty of room, we had contact and I'm off into the dirt and into the barrier.
“It was a big accident, so unless I find out something different from him, it was stupid and dangerous driving. I was four or five feet from him and then the next thing I know he was hitting me.”
The accident compounded another disappointing weekend for Malaysia, which had also been involved in the multi-car opening lap accident in the sprint race. The squad currently sits a lowly 16th in the nations' standings, having finished fifth and sixth respectively over the first two campaigns.
“Anything that could have gone wrong did go wrong,” former grand prix star Yoong lamented. “There was nothing we could have done. The boys did a pretty good job and we just got it out in time for the feature race, then we only did half a lap again.
“The people who suffer the most are the mechanics. They worked so hard to get the car ready and now it is in the barrier.”
Reid, however, remained unrepentant over the clash, describing it as merely a racing incident after going on to take the chequered flag in second place, behind first-time winner Narain Karthikeyan.
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