Alexander Albon shouldered t💦he blame for a near-✃miss with Lewis Hamilton during second practice for the Russian Grand Prix on Friday, admitting he had misjudged where the Mercedes was behind him.

Albon endured a tough Friday of running in Sochi as floor damag♊e on his Red Bull RB15 car cost him track time in the afternoon, before hitting the track late in the session.

Hamilton slipped past Albon at theꦦ inside of Turn 3 in the closing stages♏ of FP2, narrowly avoiding contact after gaining rapidly on the Red Bull that was on a slow lap.

Speaking about the incident after the session, Albon was happy to take the blam♉e for it, saying he had been more focused on the gap to Valtteri Bottas in the sister Mercedes.

“To be honest I was hearing Bottas’ distance behind, so I kind of didn’t ꦆknow that Lewis was right there behind,” Albon said.

“It was my mistake. It’s just one those things. Obvi🌟ously the closing speed is quick and I didn’t see him.”

Albon finished FP2 down in 10th plac🎃e after struggling to make the most of the track time he did 💟get in.

“I had a bit of floor damage [in FP2] which was u🅰nfortunate and kind of delayed the whole thing,” Albon said.

“It was a bit of aꦅ mess to be honest, I tried out of trouble as best as I could but it was just a never-ending t𝔉raffic jam. I wouldn’t say it was a competitive session.

“[It’s] just getting confidence in the car. If you are not comfortable with one corner here you 🙈are✅n’t comfortable with 20 of them. That explains the pace and I need to analyse it for tomorrow.”