Formula 1 Race Incident Analysis

Sets in, Daniel Ricciardo, and then Sebastian Vettel ahead of Max

Verstappen.

Good start from Carlos Sainz. He's ahead of Valtteri Bottas.

Round Red Turn 3 we go, and it's Nico Rosberg,

and Hamilton's onto the grass.

And Hamilton's had a massive crash, and he's crashed into his teammate!

The two Mercedes come together as Hamilton tried to pass

on the inside, and he can cover his hands over his eyes,

and he

won't want to see that again. We have-

Who-

... the Silver Arrows have crashed on the

opening lap.

Hamilton takes out his teammate, and there will be a big, big

inquiry behind closed doors into that.

Uh, I was in the incorrect, uh, engine setting, so, uh, so I

was down on power.

Um, so Lewis closed in, and, and then I saw him coming,

so I closed the door, you

know, to defend my position because that was my race to win.

I was gaining on him by 17 Ks an hour.

It, there's, there was a smaller gap on the left than there

was the right, so I

went for the right one, so.

And then next thing was, uh, you know, him spinning on the grass

and him taking me

out.

Do you think he was fair with you?

I, I'm not gonna get into that. You know, I'm just gonna move forwards, and they

said it was neither. It was... They can't decide, so.

It is definitely not a 100% pro one and zero for the other,

and, uh, that's why I wouldn't want to attribute

any, any blame

to each of them.

Max, I would imagine, not wanting Daniel Ricciardo to get

anywhere near his

slipstream or inside-

He needs to keep him over the left. Oh.

But he's gonna try and dive down the inside.

They have crashed!

They've gone into each other. Daniel Ricciardo late braking.

St-

Verstappen was right in front of him.

And the two Red Bulls who have been touching and barging and banging all

afternoon have had one bang too many.

Big-

And points thrown away. Adrian Newey walks away in

disgust. Christian Horner can't quite believe what

he's seen.

Who wanted to go left.

Verstappen blocked him off. Thought about going right.

Put on the brakes.

Paul, give us your verdict on who was at fault there.

Yeah, you can see Max had the inside covered.

Daniel dummy dumb went to go the outside, and then Max came across, and by that

point, it was too late. There's nothing he could have done to get

out the way.

Earlier. And Fer-

Oh, puncture

Oh no, he's got a puncture! They made contact,

and Charles Leclerc's got a

puncture caused by contact with his teammate, Sebastian Vettel.

The hell's wrong with them?

Oh, and Vettel's got problems too.

I have a puncture. What the hell is he doing? Sorry.

Puncture. Mein Gott.

And a double DNF for Ferrari that has been caused

all of their own making. And they've both got DRS, and they're

both going wheel to wheel, and it's two McLarens powering down the

back

straight. Down the inside goes Oscar Piastri to hold

onto that

position. And wow, Lando Norris caught him by surprise.

Piastri r- really reacted well.

Oh.

He's into the grass, and they have touched!

He's got a damaged wing.

The front wing is gone, and Lando Norris is out of this race.

And he said inevitably the two McLarens would come together

at some point, and that point, on lap 67 in

Canada, has arrived now. Let's go through it again.

Initially, super move by Lando Norris down the

inside.

Piastri is half a car length ahead, but not for long.

Yeah, and critically, they'd both got DRS, uh, because Piastri

still had it from the Mercedes ahead of him. And that...

Piastri was tight into the final chicane, so slow out.

And now Norris gets his rear wing open again. Goes left.

Did they even touch?

He, he went for a g-... I think he went for a gap

that wasn't there.

Did they even touch?

Potentially. Let's have a look. I think he, he's thought that,

"There's a gap on

the inside. I've got to do something to catch him by

surprise to try and get

past him. There's the gap." Oh, no it's not.

Oh, yeah.

They did touch.

They did touch. His front wing touched the rear tire

surface of

Piastri.

Are you all right, dude?

Yeah. Sorry. It's on, on my bad.

All, all my fault.

Unlucky, sir.

He was looking for, and he's going to go out!

Oh my goodness, this is fantastic.

This is what we were fearing might happen during the race.

And that means to say that Prost has won the world championship.