The cars hit the track for the first time this weekend in Canada but technical issues at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve shortly after first practice began mea...

Here are the FP1 highlights from YouTube, but the session basically didn’t happen. During outlaps, Gasly’s alpine stopped with a driveshaft issue, prompting a red-flag for cleanup. But the session never restarted due to a problem with the closed-circuit television system at the track. It’s not clear whether this system is used by race control to monitor conditions on the track, is a security system to keep fans off the track or both. But apparently it’s considered a sufficiently essential safety system that the session was stopped over it.

FP2 has been extended to 90m to try to recoup the lost running time.

  • SpeexMEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    Was a rough testing day for sure.