Pre-Race Free Practice Albon has a massive accident in FP1 at Turn 6 → same place he wiped out in 2023 It becomes known that Williams doesn’t have a spare chassis Logan gets to sit out out of the race Albon admitted after the decision that the atmosphere within the team wasn’t good Qualifying Perez received a grid drop for impeding Hulk during Q1 → OTR P3, lined up P6 Tsunoda knocked Lewis out of Q3 → TSU lined up P10, HAM P11 RIC out in Q1 → is McLaren-era Danny Ric back? Race Day Verstappen out on Lap 3 due to a sticking right-rear caliper VER had complaining about the car being loose all race, up to that point Last Verstappen DNF was Australia ‘22 VER’s DNF triggered a rash of early pits All the soft tire starters took hards, BOT’s pit woes continue Lewis DNF on Lap 16, to a PU failure brought by an oiling issue This brings out a VSC → Alonso basically getting a free pit stop Last lap shenanigans from Alonso → copped a +20s penalty for “potentially dangerous driving” Based on telemetry data from previous laps, Alonso was going significantly slower Combination of overspeed and dirty air caused RUS to have a colossal accident Ferrari 1-2! Carlos P1 - Charles P2 → Lando rounds out the podium Haas double points! → HUL P9, MAG P10 Albon P11 → causing a lot of folks to ask what was the point of the chassis swap Albon: “We need these races when you have three [cars] of the top teams retiring. You've got to capitalise on that and unfortunately, we didn't”
