Friday free practice for 2014 British Grand Prix – Felipe Massa gets a wheel on the kerb, sending his car spinning round and hugely hit into the wall. it rips the front left of the car off. The crash could to damage the gearbox, too. It’s been a terrible few minutes for Williams.
The session has been stopped following that accident; it’s a very difficult situation for Williams to get the car fixed in time for second practice.
The 31-year-old former DTM driver became just the sixth woman in F1 history, and the first since Italian Giovanna Amati attempted to qualify for three races in 1992, to take part in a race weekend when she took to the track in Practice One on the opening morning of the British GP.
However, after weeks of build-up and preparation two years on from her first run in an F1 car at the same circuit, the luckless Scot completed just one full flying lap before being forced to park her FW36 in the run-off area at Vale corner when the car developed oil pressure problems which shut off its Mercedes engine.
“It’s a pretty terminal problem,” Wolff told Sky Sports F1 after returning to the garage to discover the bad news. “But I hope the guys get it ready for Valtteri [Bottas] in P2.”
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