Checo Pérez destroyed his car after a very hard crash on the first lap in Monaco that caused a red flag

It was a weekend to forget about the Mexican Sergio Checo Pérez in the Formula 1 in Monaco. From the disastrous classification in which he could not pass Q1, he went on to abandon in the first meters of the main race in the streets of the Principality, after having been involved in a multiple touch that threw him against the retaining wall and caused the destruction of his Red Bull car, fortunately without physical consequences..

The incident was caused by an attack by the Dane Kevin Magnussen (Haas), who tried to overtake his teammate after the first corner Nico Hülkenberg, but also the Mexican pilot. When they began the climb in the Casino area, Magnussen touched the Mexican in an area where he had no room to pass.

When it touched the rear of Checo Pérez’s RB20, it became a bullet inside the guardrail area of ​​the narrow street layout, in turn hitting the second Haas, that of Nico Hülkenberg. The impact on the retaining wall was such that those responsible for the circuit had to work for several minutes to recondition it for the relaunch of the race.

“It was totally unnecessary, damn it”said Hülkenberg, who was shocked by Checo when the Mexican no longer had control of his vehicle.

Magnussen, who was just two points away from his driver’s license to be penalized with a race, could not compete in the next round in Canada, something that has not happened in Formula 1 since 2012 with Romain Grosjean.

The race management immediately decided to raise the red flag in order to clean the track that had been badly affected with the pieces of Pérez’s car scattered on the asphalt.

It was not the only incident that left the chaotic start of Formula 1 on the streets of Monaco. Carlos Sainz got lost in one of the first corners when punctured at the exit with a slight friction with Oscar Piastri which left the Australian with the floor of the McLaren also touched. The Spaniard benefited from the red flag, since the relaunch left him in third place on the grid.

The most curious thing, however, was what happened between the Alpine pilots. They repeated old duels at the entrance to the tunnel, when Pierre Gasly did not let Esteban Ocon pass him, among other things because he had no place to put his car. The friction caused the ’31’ to fly, with all four wheels in the airbut with a forced landing at least straight, only with the car very damaged. “Why do you do it, why do you do it, why?”shouted Ocon, who apparently blamed his partner for what happened.