{"id":288879,"date":"2023-09-16T14:37:22","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T14:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/?p=288879"},"modified":"2023-09-16T14:37:22","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T14:37:22","slug":"lance-stroll-suffers-massive-crash-during-singapore-gp-qualifying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/racing\/f1\/lance-stroll-suffers-massive-crash-during-singapore-gp-qualifying\/","title":{"rendered":"Lance Stroll suffers massive crash during Singapore GP qualifying"},"content":{"rendered":"
Lance Stroll brought out the red flag during the first part of qualifying for the Singapore Grand Prix after his Aston Martin was destroyed in a massive crash on the street circuit.<\/p>\n
The Canadian, who has endured a miserable season, looked to be heading out of qualifying in 20th place, as he looked to improve on his time.<\/p>\n
He was improving on his time heading into the final corner, where he had a massive slide and crashed head on into the barrier – at a part of the circuit where cars will be reaching upwards of 150mph.<\/p>\n
His Aston Martin spun violently into the air before coming to a stop in the middle of the circuit. The Canadian was able to walk away from the impact after reporting he was OK over the team radio.<\/p>\n
Debris was littered across the main straight, while the front left corner of his Aston Martin was wrecked with the impact ripping the wheel off his car.<\/p>\n
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Lance Stroll suffered a massive crash during qualifying for the Singapore Grand Prix<\/p>\n
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Stroll lost control over a kerb and was thrown violently into the barrier out of the final corner<\/p>\n
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His car was briefly thrown off the ground as it span around and ended up back in the track<\/p>\n
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The crash brought out the red flag with the qualifying session delayed by 34 minutes<\/p>\n
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Stroll lost control at the final corner and had a violent impact into the barrier but was fortunately able to get out of his car and report to his Aston Martin team that he was okay<\/p>\n
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Stroll also lost both his front and rear wing in the crash which was at a section of the track where cars are said to be doing a minimum of 150mph<\/p>\n
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The impact ripped off the front left of his Aston Martin and brought out the red flag<\/p>\n
There was panic on the faces of his Aston Martin team sitting on the pit wall, and race engineer Ben Mitchell asked the 24-year-old if he was okay.<\/p>\n
To their relief, Stroll calmly responded that he was ‘OK’, not sounding like a man who had been involved in a massive impact against the barrier just seconds earlier.<\/p>\n
He has however been taken to the medical centre for precautionary reasons.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Stroll’s head was sent rocking from side-to-side from the impact, while Lando Norris in his McLaren was forced to take evasive action – dodging a flying wheel and Stroll’s out-of-control machine.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘Is the driver alright?’ asked Norris on the radio. ‘That must have been quite a big one.’<\/p>\n
Sky F1 commentator Martin Brundle said: ‘He had to steer into the slide and the front axel bit and turned him right, almost a head on there and the barriers did a really great job of absorbing the energy and has the front of his car.<\/p>\n
‘The cockpit is in tact around his legs. You always worry whether suspension parts would come into the cockpit and break his legs but he seems okay.<\/p>\n
‘It’s the kerb that’s done it, he took his hands off his wheel luckily.’\u00a0<\/p>\n
Q1 was not restarted with not enough time left on the clock to get the session restarted.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Stroll was in last place and trying to get out of the first part of qualifying when it happened<\/p>\n
Stroll’s impact left the marshals with a significant barrier repair job at the final corner, with fluid from his car also on the track.<\/p>\n
The session was delayed for 34 minutes before Q2 started at 9:53pm local time.<\/p>\n
It is the latest setback to a disappointing season for Stroll who has been outperformed by team-mate Fernando Alonso.<\/p>\n
While Alonso sits third in the standings with seven podiums this season, Stroll has yet to notch up a top three finish and has just 47 points compared to the Spaniard’s 170.<\/p>\n
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