(Spoiler) Monaco Qualifying accident.......any word on Perez?
05-28-2011, 11:17 PM
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(Spoiler) Monaco Qualifying accident.......any word on Perez?
Qualifying - Vettel on pole in Monaco after Perez shunt 28 May 2011
Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel was in the right place at the right time in a dramatic final qualifying session in Monaco on Saturday afternoon, to take his fifth pole of the season. Just after the world champion had gone fastest, the session was red flagged with 2m 26s remaining when Sergio Perez, who had done a great job to run ninth in Q2, lost his Sauber over the bumps exiting the tunnel.
Perez was wider off line than Mercedes’ Nico Rosberg had been in the morning, but thereafter his accident followed the trend of the German’s as he crashed first into the right-hand barriers. That crushed the right-hand side of the C30, which then ran down the road and broadsided, on the right-hand side again, into the same chicane wall that Sauber driver Karl Wendlinger had struck back in 1994.
Medical services were on the scene quickly, and the young Mexican was gently removed from the cockpit and placed in the ambulance, conscious and responding to questions from Sauber CEO Monisha Kaltenborn, at 15.08 local time.
At the time of the accident Vettel led McLaren’s Jenson Button, 1m 13.556s to 1m 13.997s, with Red Bull’s Mark Webber next on 1m 14.019s from Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso on 1m 14.483s and Mercedes’ Michael Schumacher on 1m 14.682s. Ferrari’s Felipe Massa was next on 1m 14.877s.
Perez’s crash was a disaster for Rosberg, who had only done 1m 17.104s after spoiling the first sector, and McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton, who had been fastest in Q1 and Q2 and had deliberately held back in search of a clear run. He was on his first fast lap when Perez crashed and thus saw it lost. As the session restart approached, he faced starting from eighth place.
Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel was in the right place at the right time in a dramatic final qualifying session in Monaco on Saturday afternoon, to take his fifth pole of the season. Just after the world champion had gone fastest, the session was red flagged with 2m 26s remaining when Sergio Perez, who had done a great job to run ninth in Q2, lost his Sauber over the bumps exiting the tunnel.
Perez was wider off line than Mercedes’ Nico Rosberg had been in the morning, but thereafter his accident followed the trend of the German’s as he crashed first into the right-hand barriers. That crushed the right-hand side of the C30, which then ran down the road and broadsided, on the right-hand side again, into the same chicane wall that Sauber driver Karl Wendlinger had struck back in 1994.
Medical services were on the scene quickly, and the young Mexican was gently removed from the cockpit and placed in the ambulance, conscious and responding to questions from Sauber CEO Monisha Kaltenborn, at 15.08 local time.
At the time of the accident Vettel led McLaren’s Jenson Button, 1m 13.556s to 1m 13.997s, with Red Bull’s Mark Webber next on 1m 14.019s from Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso on 1m 14.483s and Mercedes’ Michael Schumacher on 1m 14.682s. Ferrari’s Felipe Massa was next on 1m 14.877s.
Perez’s crash was a disaster for Rosberg, who had only done 1m 17.104s after spoiling the first sector, and McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton, who had been fastest in Q1 and Q2 and had deliberately held back in search of a clear run. He was on his first fast lap when Perez crashed and thus saw it lost. As the session restart approached, he faced starting from eighth place.
