Russell had previously called the Circuito de Madring, the new F1 circuit, the \"craziest circuit on the calendar\" in the pre-weekend presser. Now he has reacted to the crash, calling the Madrid street track to have an even smaller margin for error than Monaco due to the speeds.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\"I would put this as a circuit that has less margin than Monaco,\" Russell said, as quoted by the Independent. \"Purely because of the speed. In Monaco, the walls are closer, but you\u2019re going slower\u2026 if you make a mistake, you\u2019re in the wall less quickly, and if you lock up, you can recover it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\"Here, there\u2019s a lot of really fast corners and the barriers are almost coming onto the track. If you are to go wide and hit the wall, you\u2019re not hitting it at the same angle the car is going.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
He also cautioned about possible lock-ups of the steering and that the Madrid track remained reminiscent of the lock-ups at Baku and Jeddah. \"Then another element of the challenge here is that there will be a lot of lock-ups. If you lock up at turn five, the wall is right in front of you. Very similar to Baku and then Jeddah-esque too,\" he said.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Little before the F1 first practice, Thai driver Inthraphuvasak escaped unhurt from the crash in F2, an F1 feeder series, as his car burst into flames at the first-ever race weekend at the Madring GP. The racer jumped out of his car unhurt as he jumped over the wall, and marshals arrived for their fire-extinguishing work. <\/p>\r\n\r\n
He also cautioned about possible lock-ups of the steering and that the Madrid track remained reminiscent of the lock-ups at Baku and Jeddah. \"Then another element of the challenge here is that there will be a lot of lock-ups. If you lock up at turn five, the wall is right in front of you. Very similar to Baku and then Jeddah-esque too,\" he said.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Max Verstappen, who looks to cause some \"chaos\" at the Spanish GP with the unexpected nature of the track, was fifth ahead of McLaren's Lando Norris (6th), Racing Bulls' Arvid Lindblad (7th), McLaren's Oscar Piastri (8th), Audi's Nico Hulkenberg (9th) and Racing Bulls' Liam Lawson (10th) to wrap up the top 10.<\/p>\r\n\r\n