Aboard his Williams, rookie Franco Colapinto had a very big accident when he ended up in the wall this Saturday, during the qualifying session for the Las Vegas Grand Prix. Fortunately, he got out of his car unharmed.
The images are spectacular. This Saturday, the qualifying session for the Las Vegas Grand Prix, the twenty-second round of the Formula 1 world championship, was marked by the impressive crash of Franco Colapinto.
A new blow for Colapinto
It was in Q2 that the young Argentinian driver (21 years old) lost control of his Williams, which ended his race in the opposite wall. The fault lies in a poorly controlled last turn. After sliding several meters, Colapinto managed to extricate himself from his passenger compartment, unharmed. “I’m fine,” he quickly reported into his radio.
Proof that the impact was quite terrible, the concrete wall against which the car was thrown was even moved, and the track found itself littered with debris. It took many minutes to repair the damage caused by the accident and put the displaced concrete blocks back in place. The session was then able to resume with Q3.
It is also another hard blow for the Williams team, weighed down by numerous crashes throughout the season, and for Colapinto, author of a notable debut in F1 but less successful in recent weeks. In Brazil, in certainly difficult conditions, he had already gone into the wall under the safety car regime.
Note that it was George Russell (Mercedes) who won pole in Las Vegas, ahead of Carlos Sainz (Ferrari) and Pierre Gasly (Alpine). Max Verstappen (Red Bull), who will start from fifth position ahead of Landon Norris (McLaren), will have this Sunday (start 7 a.m. French time) a first chance to claim a fourth consecutive title.
