There were a couple of minutes left for the end of the Free Practice 3 session from monaco when the look went from the asphalt to the sky. When the center of attention was not the fastest but Lewis Hamilton. But rather, the mercedes by Lewis Hamilton. The Englishman’s car, crashed, flew over the Monte Carlo track in crane at a time that brought smiles inside the box of the Germans and that surely Toto Wolff did not like it at all.
Because everything was seen. The best kept secrets of every F1 car were seen. Yes, because the flat bottom of the renewed W14 was captured in full detail. And not for a short time, because there were quite a few minutes that the Mercedes was like ‘Superman’ for Monaco.
All because of the Hamilton accident. all for one visit to the Monegasque wall. With just minutes left to finish Free Practice 3, Lewis had a setback. He had a contravolante. He had a hit broke the car and that caused the ‘assistance’ to arrive.
The commissioners, as they did with Magnussen, they were the first to rescue the Mercedes with Hamilton watching closely. In those moments the crane arrived, which raised the car to the sky with not exactly delicacy.
He was lurching. It went from here to there, even getting to be practically vertical with the ground. From the windows of the buildings the F1 car could be perfectly observed fearing that gravity was more powerful than a crane that did not seem the most stable in the world.
Thus ended the essay for Hamilton. That’s how it ended, with Lewis from the ground and his car, his revamped car, up high. With Wolff surely pissed off. With the rest of the teams putting their photographers and spies to work to capture perfectly every detail of the Mercedes.
Red flag, and end of the session. Now it remains to be seen how the Mercedes works in qualifying after having taken a good walk through the sky of Monaco.
