ROUND 1: 🇦🇺 Australia
FORMULA 1 LOUIS VUITTON AUSTRALIAN GRAND PRIX 2025
Circuit stats
- First Grand Prix: 1996
- Number of laps: 58
- Circuit Length: 5.278 km
- Race Distance: 306.124 km
- Lap record: 1:19.813 Charles Leclerc (2024)
- 2024 winner: Carlos Sainz
Fernando, the chad he is, taking his hands off the wheel when crashing.
So many drivers don’t do that, and we saw with Ricciardo how it can end…
Source: https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article/it-was-either-hit-piastri-or-hit-the-wall-ricciardo-reflects-on-hand.1QLD6wVr60nuiH0YIA3k4t
Yes I know that, his case was special, but in other cases not taking your hands off can easily end with broken fingers like Ricciardo