There have been plenty of concerns about the F1 Las Vegas Grand Prix heading into the first race there since 1982.

And in the first practice session, disaster struck early on Friday.

As the drivers were going around the track, Carlos Sainz of Ferrari hit a loose drain cover, sending sparks everywhere and damaging the heck out of the bottom of his car. The practice session was stopped, the drain cover was fixed, and eventually the cars got back out. But Sainz will get a penalty on race day — which feels really unfair — and his car got back out, performing very well once everything got fixed.

Here are videos of the incident, plus photos of the damage:

 

What a disaster all around.




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