Lance Stroll and Nicholas Latifi are under investigation after the pair collided in the final minutes of the first qualifying session.
The collision occured with just over two minutes left in the session as the pair attempted to set their final laps. Stroll had just overtaken Latifi approaching turn five when the Williams driver attempted to repass him following the corner and the pair made contact.
The impact ripped the left-rear wheel off Latifi’s Williams and sent him spinning into the barriers. Stroll was told to stop his car as he headed back to the pits.
Latifi had been on a slow-down lap at the time of the collision. He had aborted his previous run shortly before the end of the lap. “I’m just backing off,” he explained on the radio, “I was going to kill the tyres, I wasn’t going to improve.”
As he passed through the turns three and four complex Latifi’s race engineer Gaetan Jego told him: “Watch out for Stroll within one [second].”
“He backed off,” Latifi…