As the dust begins to settle on the 2024 Monaco Grand Prix, it is time to bring you up to speed with the major talking points. Red Bull has revealed just how badly their pockets have been hit after Sergio Perez crashed out in dramatic fashion alongside the Haas cars in Monaco, while photographers narrowly escaped getting caught up in the chaos, thankfully. Here is your post-Monaco Monday F1 news round-up.
.. After being tagged by the Haas of Kevin Magnussen on the run up the hill out of Sainte Devote, Perez found himself pinballing between the barriers with only the survival cell of his Red Bull RB20 left intact.
It was a huge relief to see Perez walk away unscathed. His Red Bull of course was far from unscathed, with senior advisor Helmut Marko claiming the cost of that shunt for the team is “two to three million”, which is far from ideal for Red Bull in the cost cap era. Read more – Revealed: The staggering cost of Sergio Perez’s Monaco Grand Prix crash Photographers were gathered at the point of impact as Perez hit the barriers and they ended up far closer to the action than they would have anticipated, footage showing the force of the impact as debris flew and photographers fled.
A trackside photographer was taken to the Medical Centre, an FIA spokesperson telling the media there were no open wounds. Read more – Alarming footage captures F1 photographers’ lucky escape in Sergio Perez crash In what was an incident-filled first lap of the Monaco GP, the two Alpin.
