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From spins to crashes and smoke coming out of cars, the first practice session of the Mexican GP was action-packed. However, apart from the incidents, there was one unexpectedly hilarious scenario. It was a scenario involving Carlos Sainz and Nyck de Vries that might become a recurring theme from next season.

The scenario came to be as soon-to-be AlphaTauri driver, Nyck de Vries, sat in the Mercedes W13 for the last time this season. The Dutchman replaced George Russell to get his time on the track for the first practice session. De Vries, leaving Mercedes after three years, also shared a heartfelt message with the team towards the end of the session.

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However, before the session ended, De Vries caused some confusion for Carlos Sainz. The Ferrari man was on the track and got a simple message on the radio. However, the message was lost in translation and Sainz’s interpretation of the message was absolutely hilarious.

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Sainz got an update on the radio saying, “De Vries behind, on an outlap.” It seemed like a routine communication, however, Sainz’s response was anything but routine. He asked, “Who, what, debris?” This communication cracked Sainz’s race engineer as he replied, “Haha no, De Vries. Sorry.”

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This hilarious exchange between Sainz and his engineer was comedic gold. Additionally, thanks to the public nature of radio exchanges, everyone can enjoy this miscommunication.

Twitter reacts to Carlos Sainz staying away from debris and De Vries

Everyone already is enjoying this hilarious miscommunication as this confusion between De Vries and debris came under Twitter’s radar.

Let’s first look at the original communication between Sainz and his engineer.

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As usual, this miscommunication quickly became the talk of the town on Twitter with “De Vries” as a trending topic.

Reactions are pouring in as fans can’t get enough of this innocent yet hilarious miscommunication. Some fans are even attacking Sainz’s nickname, the “smooth operator”.

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The fans got extremely creative with the reactions displaying their excellent editing skills to compare De Vries and debris.

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Mahim Suhalka

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Mahim Suhalka is an F1 Author at EssentiallySports. This Sports Management post-graduate is an ardent supporter of the Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 team and their lead driver, Lewis Hamilton. The fact that Lewis dominated one of the most expensive sports in the world for all these years, despite his humble beginnings, has been a huge inspiration for Mahim and has made him a tenured fan of the competitive sport itself.
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Ranvijay Singh