Red Bull driver Sergio Perez of Mexico steers his automobile for a Formula One pre season take a look at on the Bahrain International Circuit in Sakhir, Bahrain, Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)
The cowl flew up when Red Bull’s Sergio Perez drove over a curb, inflicting a pink-flag stoppage to the morning session after simply half an hour amid repairs and an inspection of the world.
A unfastened drain cowl together with the monitor precipitated an extended delay to Formula 1 preseason testing for the second day in a row Friday.
The cowl flew up when Red Bull’s Sergio Perez drove over a curb, inflicting a pink-flag stoppage to the morning session after simply half an hour amid repairs and an inspection of the world.
“Another day, another drain,” Red Bull wrote on X, previously Twitter, because the group checked Perez’s automobile for attainable injury to the ground.
It was in the identical a part of the monitor the place one other unfastened cowl precipitated disruption the day earlier than. Thursday’s incident left particles scattered throughout the monitor and precipitated related delays after two vehicles ran over the unfastened cowl.
Drains have been a persistent drawback for F1 in current years, although sometimes on road circuits, not everlasting racing venues like Bahrain.
Carlos Sainz Jr.’s Ferrari was badly broken by a water valve cowl in apply for the Las Vegas Grand Prix in November and George Russell’s Williams automobile was wrecked in 2019 when it hit a drain cowl in apply in Azerbaijan.
