Williams F1 Retired In The Strangest Way Imaginable In Australia Grand Prix
You can't make this stuff up
Williams rookie Sergey Sirotkin retired during the fourth lap of yesterday's Australian Grand Prix, his Formula 1 debut, after encountering an incredibly unusual brake problem.
He had been complaining of brake issues during the race, and when he spoke to media at the Albert Park circuit afterwards, he revealed the unlikely cause.
sergey sirotkini didn't even get a sandwich from it!
'You would not believe how clever it was what happened,' he said. 'There was a plastic sandwich bag that went into the rear-right brake duct, which was lap three or lap four, I suppose.'
'That caused massive overheating which caused massive temperature spikes and it destroyed all the brakes. At some point I lost the pedal completely, lucky no wall or nothing there so the car is still in one piece but I lost the car straight [on].'
Yes, you read that right. He had to retire from his first ever F1 race because someone's plastic sandwich bag made it into his brake duct.
Luckily, he saw the funny side, joking that he was disappointed the bag was empty. 'I didn't even get a sandwich from it!'
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Comments (4)
Hmm... smells fishy.
Maybe the bag had a tuna sandwich.
it a brake from the normal i guess, cannot get wrap up in himself as he not the toast of the town.
Bummer.
Damn first f1 over because of a plastic bag