F1 Suspension Failure
Daniil kvyat says the suspension failure which put him out of the austrian grand prix began after esteban ocon forced him wide.
F1 suspension failure. Ferraris sebastian vettel suffers a heart stopping suspension failure during the 2019 united states grand prix. Vettels race begun in dismal fashion as he dropped from second to seventh in the opening few laps. Article continues under video. When an f1 car goes over a kerb at high speeds the suspension needs to be strong and stiff to be able to handle those loads without occurring any damage.
I think that it may have been caused by the brakes somehow and transferred the inertia to the suspension causing it to fail. The german driver had a terrible start to the race being jumped off the line by third placed max verstappen. The ferrari driver suffered a suspension failure on the right rear of his sf90 when he ran wide over the kerbs at turn 8 on the eighth lap of sundays race in austin. Carbon fibre elements such as the push rods and pull rods for example are very strong in compression and tension and can take loads of ten kilonewtons or more.
Mclaren formula 1 team is still investigating the cause of the mystery right rear suspension failure that stopped lando norris early in the canadian grand prix. One of f1s all time most surprising moments. Vettel was busy trying to make amends for a poor opening couple of laps in which he dropped from p2 to p7 when his suspension failed on the turn 8 exit kerbs on lap 8. It certainly was for toro rossos sebastien buemi.
Norris was running in an. Vettel who struggled with. However he admitted he could have tried to pass the renault driver elsewhere on the track when he caught ocon late in the race. Having started from the front row of the grid for the us grand prix at the circuit of the americas sebastian vettels race came to an end on lap 7.
It seems as though during initial braking when the rear spoiler closes for downforce it caused a chain reaction which in turn couldve somehow tore the suspension apart.