Schumacher’s broken car was ‘quite shocking’ for rivals

Driving past the wreckage of Mick Schumacher’s Haas in Monaco, Pierre Gasly says it was “quite shocking” to see the car split in two.

Schumacher suffered his second big crash of this season at Sunday’s Monaco Grand Prix, the German getting slightly off line through the Swimming Pool chicane.

He reckons “10 centimetres” is all that it took for him to lose control of the car, spear in to the Armco barrier with the car continuing into the Tecpro barrier on the exit.

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His Haas broke in two, the rear suspension and gearbox in one part, and Schumacher in his survival cell in the other.

“I’m OK, I just don’t understand it,” he told his Haas team over the radio.

He climbed unaided from the wreckage before being taken to the track’s medical centre for precautionary checks.

It was a hard hit with his rivals having to make their way past the debris before the race was red flagged.

“When I saw the gearbox completely out, it was quite shocking,” Gasly said as per Motorsport.com.

“For the red flag, they took some time, but it was the right thing to do. I was a bit surprised we had VSC and not a Safety Car straight away.”

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Race Control initially had the drivers continue on the track behind the Safety Car but given the damage to the barrier the red flag was then thrown.

It was Schumacher’s second big crash, the German missing the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix after smashing into the barriers in qualifying.

In that crash too his car broke into two pieces.

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