Less than 10 min­utes after the start of train­ing, a Fer­rari dri­ver’s car was dam­aged due to a road hatch. The ses­sion was inter­rupt­ed and the pilot left the car.

Auto­drome work­ers care­ful­ly stud­ied the track, after which F1 announced that prac­tice would not be resumed.

Lat­er it became known that anoth­er car was dam­aged by the hatch. The Alpin team announced that it will replace the chas­sis of its dri­ver, Este­ban Ocon.

Ocon man­aged to fly up and dam­age the land­ing gear, Sainz also flew up after him, slow­ing down under the yel­low flags. But the car still broke down.

A sec­ond train­ing ses­sion was sched­uled for Fri­day, Novem­ber 17, but was in dan­ger of being can­celled. Employ­ees iden­ti­fied prob­lems with the road sur­face in many places.

The Grand Prix in Las Vegas will take place this Sun­day, Novem­ber 19th.

Before the sec­ond prac­tice ses­sion, the FIA ​​will check all oth­er hatch­es to make a deci­sion on the rest of the week­end.

The fire route was com­plet­ed.

Aus­tralian Alpha Tau­ri dri­ver Daniel Ric­cia­r­do shared his opin­ion on the top­ic of motor­sport safe­ty after an episode in the first free prac­tice of the Las Vegas Grand Prix, when both cars were dam­aged as a result of a col­li­sion with a man­hole cov­er.

“Has For­mu­la 1 put show before safe­ty? This is a fair ques­tion. It seems we are a lit­tle late with it, because two cars are already dam­aged. Besides this, the teams have a finan­cial issue, which is a big prob­lem for them, but you raised the most impor­tant issue — safe­ty.

For­tu­nate­ly, Car­los Sainz is okay, but the con­se­quences could have been much more seri­ous. It’s prob­a­bly easy to say that we attend­ed the open­ing cer­e­mo­ny and focused on oth­er things, but did they do their job? Giv­en every­thing that’s hap­pened, you might want to ask the orga­niz­ers questions—for exam­ple, have they done enough?

I def­i­nite­ly can­not ignore this issue. It’s a safe­ty issue and we’re late to it, but I hope they take it seri­ous­ly.

Sim­i­lar inci­dents also occurred in Mona­co and Baku. Obvi­ous­ly this applies to the street cir­cuits and I feel like they need a lit­tle more atten­tion.

The sec­ond train­ing ses­sion took place in front of emp­ty stands? Yes, it’s a bum­mer, but I’m try­ing to be pos­i­tive! This is my first time here, this is a large-scale project, and, unfor­tu­nate­ly, many prob­lems have emerged. I know that no one want­ed this, but I think the orga­niz­ers did every­thing they could. I know it’s late and every­one prob­a­bly has rea­sons to grum­ble, but at least we were able to dri­ve a lit­tle on the track,” ESPN US quotes Ric­cia­r­do as say­ing.