Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc had just led away easily from pole ahead of McLaren driver Oscar Piastri, while behind Carlos Sainz first attacked Piastri at Ste Devote and then slid off at Casino Square with a suspected puncture.
Perez was eliminated by Kevin Magnussen trying to poke his nose into a gap on the run up the hill before Massenet, with their crash wreckage then swinging across the track and taking out Nico Hulkenberg as he tried to come by from just behind.
Perez was eliminated by Kevin Magnussen trying to poke his nose into a gap on the run up the hill before Massenet, with their crash wreckage then swinging across the track and taking out Nico Hulkenberg as he tried to come by from just behind.
All three smashed cars continued sliding across the track and into the barriers at Massenet, with debris and wreckage strewn across the track.
Before he climbed out of his crashed SF-24, Hulkenberg witheringly called the incident “unnecessary”.
Kevin Magnussen, Haas F1 Team
Photo by: Andy Hone / Motorsport Images
Magnussen is already on the verge of a race ban as he has 10 penalty points on his superlicence.
If he is deemed to be at fault and picks up two more penalty points, Magnussen would hit the 12-point limit and be automatically banned for the next race in Canada.
Sainz was able to recover the pits after waiting for the rest of the pack to plunge by at Casino Square.
After his Ste Devote attack, the Spaniard made light contact with Piastri’s right-rear and appeared to already be suffering from a problem when he locked up at Massenet and…
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