Disaster in Las Vegas: first free game… down the drain!

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“The Las Vegas GP is 99% spectacle and 1% sporting event”He said Max Verstappencritical of all the paraphernalia surrounding the Grand Prix in Sin City. And the start of the event could not prove the Dutchman and his critics more correct. Imagine that you will bring one of the best sporting events in the world in the middle of one of the most famous cities, with very high prices for tickets, full of VIPs, with people willing to pay for a ‘million dollars’ package’, and when the event starts, everything stops in the first 10 minutes, leaving everyone excited… because of the sewers! That’s exactly what happened to Las Vegas GP.

The first free practice sessions of the Grand Prix had to be stopped after just 10 minutes of track activity and were eventually canceled due to a poorly sealed sewer that damaged the cars. Carlos Sainz and Esteban Ocon. A disaster.


When passing through an improperly sealed manhole cover, it hits the floor of Ferrari from Spanish and the same happened to Alpine from the French. SainzAfter the crash, he had to park his car due to the damage sustained on the bottom, and finally, the race management had to show the red flag and cancel the session.




Ferrari and Libres 2 are very angry in the air

“We completely damaged the monohull, the motor and the battery. I think this is unacceptable”said Ferrari boss Frédéric Vasseur, highlighting the damage costs that could have been avoided if things had been done correctly in the creation of this event. “It cost us a lot. We ruined Carlos’ session. We will definitely not be part of Free Practice 2. I think something like this today is simply unacceptable for F1,” Vasseur added.

It will be necessary to see if Free Practice 2, initially scheduled for 9:00 am (Spanish peninsular time), can be held in Las Vegas, as the FIA ​​does not just have to make sure to fix the sewer that caused the damage this. and seal it, it also had to check most of the one hundred sewers that lay across the track. Apparently, according to Albert Fàbrega, what gave way was the asphalt frame that holds the cover.

What happened could have been avoided, that much is clear. And therein lies one of the key points. ‘AP’ journalist Jenna Fryer recalled that the FIA ​​requires that the tracks pass an inspection at least a day before the cars go out on the track, but that “Due to last minute finishes and the runway not being closed to traffic until last night, the Las Vegas inspection was not completed until this morning”. That means it has to be done in a hurry. And they were wrong.

This episode is reminiscent of what already happened in another urban layout such as Baku, Azerbaijan, in 2019, where George Russell destroyed his Williams by lifting the manhole cover located on the straight. In 2016, at the Monaco GP, Button had a puncture from the manhole cover.

Source: La Verdad

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