F1 Sao Paulo Grand Prix red-flagged as Alex Albon and Kevin Magnussen crash out
Max Verstappen led the front of the 🔯field away cleanly, as the race started, but there was a big mix-up further back.
At Turn 1, Williams' Albon and𝔉 Haaꦆs' Magnussen made contact.
Ferrari's Charles Leclerc had already craꩲshed on the formation lap.
Daniel Ricciardo and Oscar Piastri's cars were also damaged, in the incident involving Albon and M😼agnussen.
The red flag cꦿamꦕe out, giving a chance to clear the track of considerable debris.
Albon's car had to be collected by a cra🌳ne, such was the damage to it.
Sky's Martin Brundle assessed the ﷺdramatic start: "Nobody did anything wrong. It’s just the nature of a 200-metre sprint to a braking point."
The restart order will be: Verstappen, Norris, Hamilton, Alonso,⛦ Stroll, Russell, Perez, Sainz, Ocon, Tsunoda, Gasly, Bottas, Zhou, Sargeant, Hulkenberg, Piastri and Ricciardo.
Verstappen would eventually cl♈ai🍌m victory in Brazil.
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from Americ🅰an sports, to footᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚball, to F1.
