Crash course


Alpine’s Jack Doohan’s car is transported onto a truck after the Australian crashed in Suzuka, Japan.

IT is inevitable in Formula One, where drivers compete at over 320kph, that sometimes they are going to crash into the barriers. What is impressive is how fast a wreckage is repaired.

“It tends to always be controlled carnage, depending on how big the accident is,” Ollie Middleton, the No. 1 mechanic for Carlos Sainz of Williams, said in an interview.

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