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Sergio Perez has denied crash ing "on purpose " in Monaco Grand Prix qualifying to hinder Formula 1 teammate Max Verstappen , saying "everyone makes mistakes." Suggestions that Perez did deliberately crash during the second Q3 laps in Monaco has been rife this week after Verstappen refused to let Perez through in Brazil to aid in his push for P2 in the Drivers' Championship, saying he "had his reasons." It stems from Perez spinning at Portier during the session and blocking the track, causing a red flag and early end to the fight for pole, with the Mexican taking third as a result and Verstappen's potential pole lap being abandoned and leaving him fourth. Come race day, a bungled strategy from Ferrari allowed Perez to undercut both cars and inherit the lead as Verstappen came home third. And when asked if he had crashed deliberately, Perez rejected the claim. ...

Mercedes Team Principal Toto Wolff has said that he does not want Sergio Perez's crash at Monaco to be investigated . The crash was put under renewed focus following the Brazilian Grand Prix, where it was claimed that Max Verstappen did not follow team orders because of the incident. Verstappen appeared to believe that his teammate crash ed deliberately to secure pole position while he was on a better lap. FIA President Mohammed ben Sulayem said the governing body were open to investigating the crash, if a formal complaint was put through by teams. But the Mercedes boss said that it would be difficult to prove given the limited GPS around the track, and also would not like to see any further "PR crisis" around the matter. "We haven't got the data, Monaco is always pretty bad on GPS [data]," said Wolff to media, including TheFOXposts.Com . "I've known Sergio for a long time, would a driver really put his car in the wall and risk hi...

Lewis Hamilton 's X44 Extreme E team suffered a dramatic crash during qualifying for this weekend's Energy X-Prix in Uruguay. Driver Cristina Gutierrez lost control of her Spark Odyssey 21 during the event at Punta del Este, and launched into a series of barrel rolls. The Spanish driver was unhurt in the accident, and X44 continued to participate in qualifying using the series' development car as a replacement. Check out the dramatic incident below. Source: https://thefoxposts.com/video-big-crash-for-hamilton-s-extreme-e-team-TheFOXposts-2093.html?utm_source=blogger_source&utm_medium=blogger_medium&utm_campaign=blogger_cam Category: F1 News Post by: TheFOXposts.Com

Alex Albon's Australian Grand Prix crash was triggered by events "a few laps before" the incident occurred, according to Williams . After a strong qualifying and start to the race, Albon crashed out at Turn 6, which caused the first red flag of the race. Speaking in their race debrief video, Team Principal James Vowles believed that the crash was due to a chain reaction of events building up to that moment. Check out the video below to find out more: You must accept cookies to view this content You have not currently accepted all necessary cookies. You can change your cookie preferences here . Do you keep seeing this message? Disable any installed browser extensions or try another web browser. Or click here to load the embed manually. Please note that cookies may be placed. Source: https://thefoxposts.com/williams-explain-why-albon-s-cras...

Nico Hulkenberg admits that he had a "code brown " moment after narrowly avoiding the stricken Williams of Alex Albon in the Australian Grand Prix. Albon suffered a high-speed spin on Lap 7 of the event, causing his car to roll back onto the track following contact with the barriers. Pierre Gasly and Hulkenberg were the first to encounter Albon's FW45, leaving Hulkenberg reeling from having to take avoiding action at full speed. "Holy moly, I mean seriously I had a code brown in that moment," Hulkenberg told media, including TheFOXposts.Com . Hulkenberg recalls 'seriously scary' moment Reflecting back on the incident after the race, Hulkenberg explained that the lack of visibility added to the shock. "That was seriously scary. I mean, thank God nothing happened. But this is a nightmare scenario," the Haas driver continued. "You've come around a blind corner in a street circuit. I mean, that was seriously sc...

Kevin Magnussen admits that he "didn't feel" his crash out of the Australian Grand Prix, despite losing a tyre in the incident. The Haas driver clipped the wall out of Turn 2 on Lap 54 of the event, with the impact ripping off his right rear wheel and forcing him to retire from proceedings. Race control opted to red flag the race following the incident, resulting in a frenetic restart for the final laps of the 58-lap Grand Prix. While the crash might have looked dramatic , Magnussen says that the impact inside the car was not noticeable. "I didn't even feel it," the Dane explained after the race. "It definitely wasn't something that felt big in the car, but it was enough to crack the rim and take the tyre off." Viewed by others: Nico Hulkenberg Hulkenberg explains 'code br...

Ferrari believe that Charles Leclerc 's twin Formula 1 crash es over the Miami Grand Prix reflect his " mindset " of being behind Red Bull, but insist that they won't tell him to "calm down". Leclerc crashed twice during the recent race weekend in Miami, once in FP2 and the other in Q3 which brought about an early end to the session. He went nose-first into the barriers during the practice incident when trying to navigate the fast-sweeping Sector 1 at Turns 6/7, but hit the rear of the car at Turn 6 in the bigger qualifying shunt. In the race, Leclerc could only manage seventh place as he struggled early in the race, getting caught in a DRS train. And Senior Performance Engineer Jock Clear believes the crashes were legacy of Leclerc trying to out-drive the car. Viewed by others: Alpine F1 Team ...

Nico Hulkenberg says the Miami International Circuit is "tricky and nasty", after he crashed during FP1. On his first visit to the Miami circuit, the German lost the back end of his Haas at Turn 3 early in the session, slamming backwards into the barriers and causing the first red flag of the weekend. Afterwards, the Haas driver said the paucity of grip afforded by the circuit at that point had contributed to his accident. "A bit unnecessary. Shame that I just wanted a bit too much too soon,” Hulkenberg said of his crash to media, including TheFOXposts.Com . "It was my first time on this track and running wide there at Turn 3 is a little tricky. The crash was luckily not too bad. "It seems like there's one line where the grip is good, and if you go offline a little bit, the grip drops dramatically, and even later in the sessions there's a lot of marbles offline. "It's quite a tricky and nasty track in that sense. Easy to get ...

British Grand Prix venue Silverstone has made modifications to the Turn 1 run-off in response to Zhou Guanyu's 2022 Formula 1 crash . At the start of last year's race, Pierre Gasly was caught in a wedge between Zhou's Alfa Romeo and the slow-starting Mercedes of George Russell. As Gasly tagged Russell, the Mercedes was turned and clipped Zhou's car, flipping him into a series of rolls. He eventually came to a stop after vaulting the catch-fencing, and was stuck in the car until he could be extricated, although he was fortunately without injury. In response to the accident, the gravel trap to the side of the fast-right hander of Abbey has been removed and replaced with an asphalt run-off. Managing director of Silverstone Stuart Pringle explained that this was because Zhou's Alfa Romeo dug into the gravel, causing the car to continue rolling. As a result of the incident, the FIA also tweaked the rules for testing the roll-over hoop, with more stringe...