Max Verstappen will start the first race of Formula 1’s new rules era from the back after crashing in Australian Grand Prix Q1 and causing a red flag.<\/p>\n
Red Bull’s four-time F1 world champion was on his first flying lap with seven and a half minutes of the segment to go when his car snapped into a spin on the approach to Turn 1.<\/p>\n
Verstappen skipped across the gravel trap and into the tyre barriers, immediately ending his session and causing an eight-minute red flag.<\/p>\n
The Red Bull’s rear axle seemed to lock – Verstappen suggested as much on the team radio – after he braked and had downshifted one or even two gears.<\/p>\n
It was still quite early in the braking phase though, very sudden, and caused an immediate 180-degree spin, indicating it was likely caused while the engine was harvesting energy under braking.<\/p>\n
When that happens too aggressively it is like a handbrake being applied. By the time he hit the wall, Verstappen had completed almost a full 360-degree rotation and hit the barrier with the front right.<\/p>\n
Verstappen extracted himself from the car and walked away seemingly without harm – although as he kept hold of the steering wheel in the accident, his wrists may have suffered some discomfort.<\/p>\n
He is due to start 20th, as neither Carlos Sainz (Williams) nor Lance Stroll (Aston Martin) took to the track in Q1.<\/p>\n
Fernando Alonso was fastest of the drivers eliminated in Q1 who did set a time. The Aston Martin driver ended up three quarters of a second from a Q2 place in 17th, ahead of Cadillac duo Sergio Perez and Valtteri Bottas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen will start the first race of Formula 1’s new rules era from the back after crashing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-462185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}