Hamilton And Mazepin Were Lucky To Avoid A High Speed Crash In FP3

High speeds and slowing cars are big unbearable problem on regular circuits, but on street circuits like Jeddah, these cars can be completely unsighted. That’s exactly the issue that saw Nikita Mazepin narrowly stave a major shunt with Lewis Hamilton in FP3. 

The Mercedes was driving slowly on the racing line at Turn 8, when the Haas arrived suddenly overdue him on push lap. Cutting wideness the corner, Mazepin was lucky to stave slamming straight into the when of the seven-time champion’s car.

Nobody was too happy with what happened, not surprising. Speaking to Haas over the radio, F1 Race Director Michael Masi described the near-miss as “not unconfined at all, which is why I will deal with it with the team directly.” Mercedes could be in a spot of trouble there.

What makes the situation plane worse is that no warning flags were shown to either Hamilton or Mazepin in that sector and the Mercedes suburbanite complained to his race engineer Peter Bonnington well-nigh lightweight to warn him well-nigh the unescapable car, Moments before, Hamilton had once got in the way of a fast-moving Pierre Gasly at Turn 1.

Fingers crossed Masi and the FIA do something surpassing a major incident happens.

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