Lewis Hamilton's car dangled by hotel windows as star watches on
He was shepherded back through the streets where he livesWith the clock ticking down in third practice, Hamilton went straight on at Mirabeau and planted his car into the wall., but Hamilton’s was more costly than any other as the red flag it provoked ended the session early.
The 38-year-old then watched on as his no.44 was pulled out of the wall, and had a long walk back to the pits across the country that he now calls home. But if Hamilton’s trop wasn’t humbling enough, that of his car would have left Mercedes biting their fingernails.Credit: Getty Due to the tightness of the circuit that runs around the same streets it’s been held on since 1929, there was no space to put Hamilton’s car, so a crane lifted it from the road.Commentator David Croft said: “Someone’s going to look out of their window and see a Formula 1 car flying by!”
But there was an even more serious problem for Toto Wolff’s team, who have brought a massively upgraded and redesigned car to Monaco.
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