Gabriel Bortoleto has been cleared after precautionary medical checks necessitated by his monster crash at the end of the Brazilian Grand Prix sprint race.<\/p>\n
Bortoleto was trying to pass Alex Albon for 10th as he started his final lap of the Interlagos sprint.<\/p>\n
As he closed on the Williams approaching Turn 1, it looked like Bortoleto moved out to attempt a dive inside, but he immediately lost control as he changed direction on part of the track that was still damp.<\/p>\n
Bortoleto\u2019s Sauber speared nose-first into the inside barrier then back across the track – narrowly avoiding Albon\u2019s car – before suffering a second, more violent impact on the outside that tipped the car onto its side.<\/p>\n
His car came to a rest in the run-off area on the outside of Turn 1 with substantial damage, although Bortoleto immediately told his team he was OK. Bortoleto had precautionary checks in the medical centre and is uninjured.<\/p>\n
It meant both Saubers suffered big accidents in the race, as Nico Hulkenberg was one of three cars to crash on lap six through Turn 3 after hitting a damp kerb on the exit of Turn 2.<\/p>\n
Hulkenberg was able to rejoin the race but finished at the back, only ahead of Albon – who dropped down the order on the final lap as Bortoleto\u2019s front wing got lodged in his car.<\/p>\n
Another driver to go to the medical centre for precautionary checks after this race was Franco Colapinto, another of the lap six victims at Turn 3, who is also OK.<\/p>\n
Sauber and Alpine now have some time-pressured repair jobs to get the cars ready for grand prix qualifying. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gabriel Bortoleto has been cleared after precautionary medical checks necessitated by his monster crash at the end of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-271344","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-f1","11":"tag-formula-1","12":"tag-formula1","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}