JEDDAH (Saudi Arabia) – “The track is like Mario Kartthere are plastic bags everywhere“. It seems like a joke, yet it is the report made to the Ferrari Team Radio by the Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc during free practice for the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix. In fact, the Monegasque, somewhere between ironic and annoyed, alludes to the famous Super Nintendo video game to denounce the obstacles present on the Jeddah track.
The return to the pits
Leclerc tried to dodge as much dirt as possible, but he couldn’t avoid a plastic bag that got stuck in the front left part of his car, forcing him to return to the pits in order to remove it. A worrying situation, which puts In addition to the safety of the pilots, the show is also at serious risk ahead of the Grand Prix scheduled for Sunday. After the problem of the manholes in the first test of the season, now that of the dirt on the track: The 2024 Formula One season didn’t get off to the best startalso considering the Horner scandal and the Ben Sulayem case.
