Bojan Vrbnjak
According to the Austrian boss Mercedes team, it would pay off all guesswork and speculation about whether the accident was intentional. According to a Sky Sports F1 reporter Ted Kravitz, should be within the team Mercedes even the prevailing view was that they were Leclerc in Ferrari did so on purpose.
Leclerc is your race car SF21 placed on a temporary pole position GP Monaco with time 1: 10.346 minutes and was 0,230 seconds faster than Verstappen. His joy almost turned to misery when on his second attempt at Q3 collided with a protective fence in the pool area. The accident meant yes Verstappen, who was in his hot circle, could not finish it, as well as the others where they were most angry Sainz in Ferrari and Bottas in a Mercedes, which according to the team is supposed to be on its way to the best starting place. Leclerc has accidentally maintained a pole position, although it may be due to a possible gearbox changes got a penalty. Verstappen he categorically denied after the qualifications that the Leclerc accident would have been intentional.
On the other hand Toto wolff, team boss Mercedes considers that if formula 1 introduced a rule that applies in the American series IndyCar, where the racer who caused the collision in qualifying is wiped out the two fastest times round, this would quickly end all conspiracy theories in Formula 1. Colleagues and the portal The Race said: “I didn’t know this was the rule in the U.S., but I think it’s an intelligent rule to avoid confusion. Anyway, I don’t think Charles intentionally caused a collision as there’s a lot at stake. But that would be a nice little incentive to ensure that the controversy caused by such a situation is out of the question, it doesn’t happen because no one would doubt it."
Asked if she thinks she was Leclercova an accident intentional is the team boss Mercedes answered no, especially because the extent of the damage on the race car Ferrari and the risk of consequences if the gearbox needs to be replaced. “As with all the events we’ve seen in Monaco in the past, only a racer will always know what exactly happened. In this case, I doubt Charles would have intentionally crashed against the guardrail, as that could have caused even more damage to his race car,”The head of the team concluded for the media silver arrows, in which, according to the journalist Kravitz a different opinion prevails.
