Mar🌊cus Ericsson has confirmed ‘I am all fine’ and credits the safety standards in Formula 1 for being able to walk away unharmed after his huge crash at the start of the second free practice s💧ession at Monza.

The Alfa Romeo Sauber driver appeared to suffer a mechanical fault with his DRS flap while under braking for Turn 1 at the end of the main straight which saw him spear into the left-hand s൲ide barriers which sent him flipping over in a nasty acci🍸dent.

Ericsson wa🧸s able to hop out of his smashed Sauber unaided and following a trip to the medical centre was given the all-clear but sat out the remainder of FP2 with his car too badly damaged.

 

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Ericsson was seen 🅠in the Sauber hospitality unit and reported as okay with the Swiss team ꦍreleasing a video message from the Swedish driver.

is feeling okay and looking forward to tomorrow.

— Sauber F1 Team (@SauberF1Team)

Sauber checked on team-mate Charles Leclerc’s DRS rear wing after the accident before sending him back on t🎶he track for the remainder of FP2.

“It was quite tricky obviously because we would arrive at❀ the end of the straight and we didn’t really know whether it would close or not,” Leclerc explained. “I had the same issue but I have been a bit luckier with it, it closed a bit earlier than Marcus.

“Then we൲ found the issue, we resolved it but that required a bit of a sacrifice in performance. We know what to do for tomorrow to not have this problem and be at full performance so there’s still a bit of potential, and I think the rhythm was good today so it’s looking good for tomorrow. I think the main thing for today is Marcus is fine and looking at the crash it was not a given.”