May 23 Charles Leclerc appears to have gotten away with a hefty qualifying crash – both in terms of damage to his gearbox, and the condemnation of Formula 1. When the Ferrari driver crashed in the dying moments of Q3, the red flag prevented his rivals from completing their final runs and therefore locked in his Monaco pole. Minds were immediately cast back to ‘Rascasse-gate' – when Michael Schumacher crashed deliberately in almost identical circumstances in 2006. Leclerc's teammate Carlos Sainz was furious, as he believes he could have been on pole instead. But he insisted: 'I can't be mad at Charles at all. These are the fastest cars in history and we're all on the...
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