Unusual clash between Charles Leclerc and Lando Norris in Singapore!
Monegasco and English collided in Boxes Street and Low Speed. Who was the fault? A broken wing, long faces and an incredible situation.
Lando Norris and Charles Leclecr starred one of the images of the weekend of the Singapore GP and, probably, of the most unusual of the year. Two F1 cars, which can travel at 350 km/h, collided at Domingo Family Walk speeds in Boxes Street of Marina Bay Street.
Everything happened during the second free training of the 18th date of the World Cup. You have to contextualize the moment a bit, as if to try to dispense the Monegasco a bit and the Ferrari member who gave free way to his pilot when he was coming from McLaren’s English. The session suffered two long interruptions with red flag for the accidents of George Russell and Liam Lawson. It was 22 minutes of lost work time and, when the track was enabled after the clash of the Neozygous Racing Bulls, there were 13 for the flag of paintings. With so much pending work, everyone wanted to leave quickly, but …
The boxing teams and Maranello’s are glued. The two MCL39 left their garages and began to circulate along Pits Street, with Norris in front of Piastri. At that precise moment, in Ferrari they released Leclercwho, beyond having received a wrong order, also did not see (or could not see) that Lando came. Result: Shock in Boxes Street, two per hour and the McLaren against the wall, with the broken front wing.
“It cost the team a lot of money, it is a shame,” Norris minimized the incident. The two pilots and a representative of each team were summoned by the sports commissioners to listen to their arguments about the incident.
And the FIA made a decision: the fault was from Leclerc, so Ferrari was fined 10,000 euroswithout sports penalty. “The member team responsible for the safe exit of car 16 (LEC) judged the situation badly and gave Leclerc unclear instructions, which could not see Norris’ car. As a result, both cars collided in the Pitlane,” explains the text, which adds that despite the consideration of the commissioners about “a more severe penalty than in other cases”, finally there was no such determination.
