[Anonymous]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guc2-x7dGnA

The reporter is explaining “we have to get used to the noses and the new sound”, then Hamilton goes by and crashes.

[George]

Wooow nice find. Pretty scary crash, looks like it was just as he started braking?

[Steven]

Yeah looks like the front wing called it a day and decided to leave the rest of the car. You can see the wing sliding along the ground as Hamilton’s car hits the gravel trap.

It was probably a manufacturing error, but I don’t think Mercedes have clarified exactly what it was. I doubt Hamilton clipped a wall/kerb/etc. since all the drivers at that point (like, all 3) were essentially coasting the lap rather than doing a flat-out, at-the-limit lap.

[Kingshark]

Does this front wing issue just happen to affect Mercedes more than any other team? Rosberg had a similar failure in Korea, when his wing collapsed as soon as he moved out of Hamilton’s slipstream.

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