Vettel Crashes Ferrari in Milan Demo Run

[Paul Jeffrey]

Sebastian Vettel had a rather embarrassing incident during build up to the Italian Grand Prix, crashing his Ferrari SF71H during a street demonstration in Milan.

Vettel, 31, momentarily lost concentration in front of the throngs of people attending at the Milan Festival earlier today, knocking his Ferrari Grand Prix car into the temporary circuit parameter, seemingly causing light damage to the front wing section and causing a bit of embarrassment to the Ferrari #1 - but certainly not enough to put off the wildly enthusiastic crowds attending the venue.

The F1 Milan Festival was opened earlier today as Italy celebrates the arrival of Formula One for the Italian Grand Prix at Monza this coming weekend. Running for four days, ending the Saturday of the Grand Prix weekend, the idea behind the event is to bring the fans closer to the world of Grand Prix racing on a specially designed street course in the Darsena area of Milan.

As well as Räikkönen, Vettel and Ferrari, the event is also set to see performances from Alfa Romeo Sauber and its drivers Charles Leclerc and Marcus Ericsson alongside the Toro Rosso team, represented by Pierre Gasly and Brendon Hartley. Let's hope they manage to keep the car out of the wall...

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[Davide Sciacca]

+5 sec penalty for reckless driving.

 

[Peugeot905]

Is he to young to drive in F1?

 

[GianmarcoFiduci]

You wrote Rome instead of Milan

 

[Sky]

Vettel, 31, momentarily lost concentration in front of the thongs of people

well a load of people in thongs would be distracting

 

[NDG]

"Grazie ragazzi Grande vittoria, grande makina! grande lavoro! ! Taratatata"

EDIT: To any admin, please don't ban me for not posting in English!

 

[Alastre]

Too funny! But actually he said the car had Kimi wheel that has the clutch in a different place, and when he realized it was too late...

 

[Richard Dastardly]

Vettel, 31, momentarily lost concentration in front of the thongs of people attending at the Milan Festival earlier today

Cause discovered...

 

[UnixRoot]

 

[rubaru]

You know, another name for a flip-flop is "thong", so he could be referring to the Halo.

 

[keto95]

Sebastian Vettel had a rather embarrassing incident during build up to the Italian Grand Prix, crashing his Ferrari SF71H during a street demonstration in Milan.

Reminds me of Verstappen back in 2014 in Rotterdam: (@1:34)

Are these guys considered to be the best drivers in the world? What a laugh.

 

[samcar304]

I was surprised no one binned it at the London event, there has been quite a lot of instances over the years of drivers crashing on Demo's lol

 

[felippekiss]

better now than in the race kakakakakaka

 

[NDG]

better now than in the race kakakakakaka

Better look for some wood to knock onto mate!

What happened to Vettel here is an omen Verstappen had 4 years ago!

He suffered multiple crashes in multiple races after his similar incident!

Vettel will be in Verstappen shoes from now on! kakakakakaka

 

[gamer19]

Ferrari 2019 Lineup:

Leclerc
Raikkonen

 

[Ghoults]

RIP vettel's f1 career.

 

[b)b]

Probably a track mesh bug ?

 

[Giovaneveterano]

That was Maldonado's fault

 

[erba72]

New nose for Sauber ?

 

[Nick Gregory]

I think you meant throng.