It was a rare example of on-track sympathy from Verstappen even though the incident had served his own race aspirations well. The Dutchman was bumped straight up to second after taking the opportunity to pit behind the safety car, giving him the opportunity to try and close in on Leclerc who, at present, looks like posing the sternest challenge to his world title.
Latifi also went into the wall during Q1 on Saturday to add to a frustrating weekend for the Canadian Williams driver. That occurred in the session prior to Mick Schumacher’s high-speed crash which prompted Haas to pull him out of Sunday’s race for fear of another incident ruling them out of Melbourne in two weeks’ time.
source: express.co.uk