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There was a chaotic start to the Tuscan Grand Prix at Mugello, as the first safety car was pulled after Max Verstappen and Pierre Gasly crashed on lap 1, and then the race was red-flagged after there were a second crash on restart that wiped out four cars.
Verstappen and Gasly’s race didn’t even last two corners after the lead’s Red Bull was slow after the initial breakaway, leaving him back in the pack. Then Gasly squeezed between two other cars with Kimi Raikkonen hitting Verstappen from behind and throwing him into a spin, while Gasly ended up caught in the gravel trap as well. They were both out of the running.
WATCH: First lap multi-car accident kills Verstappen and Gasly at Mugello
After several laps under double-wave yellow flags to clear Verstappen and Gasly’s cars, the Safety Car went off the track. As is his right as the race leader, Valtteri Bottas chose to wait until the last moment to turn off the power, but lower down in the group, several drivers, assuming the race had returned to speed, already had plenty of power.
As those in front suddenly slowed down, Alfa Romeo’s Antonio Giovinazzi crashed into the rear of Kevin Magnussen’s Haas and Nicholas Latifi’s Williams, and McLaren’s Carlos Sainz crashed into the subsequent rubble as each it was knocked out in a carbon fiber shower.
The race was immediately red-flagged when drivers, who appeared uninjured, got out of their wrecked cars and returned to the pits.
