“Oh my god, is he doing well?”
Horror accident overshadow Formula 1 qualifying in imola
May 17, 2025 – 6:34 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.
Yuki Tsunoda is involved in a bad crash in the qualification at the Grand Prix of the Emilia-Romagna. A system does a great job.
Ferris second in qualifying at the Grand Prix of the Emilia-Romagna in Imola: A crash by Red Bull Pilot Yuki Tsunoda led to a longer interruption in the first section of the qualification. The teammate of world champion Max Verstappen had an accident and dismantled his racing car. Only the destroyed car of the Japanese could be seen on TV pictures, which stood in the whirled dust in the gravel bed. “I’m okay,” said Tsunoda directly into the box, bringing relief.
But it was only in the repetition that it became clear that Tsunoda survived a real horror accident.
The 25-year-old had come to the curb (the red and white marginal stones, editor’s edge) in a curve, losing control of his car, turning into the gravel bed at high speed and then hit the route boundary violently.
Even worse: the car overturned afterwards, landed on the tire stacks and then turned back to the route into the gravel bed. “Oh my god, I just saw the pictures of the crash, is he doing well?” Liam Lawson from the sister racing team Racing Bulls, but could be calmed down by his racing engineer. Other drivers such as Tsunoda’s teammate Max Verstappen also inquired about radio about his well -being.
Important: The Halo system (a Titan, which is mandatory in 2018, which surrounds the driver’s head, German “Heiigschein”, editor’s note), tsunoda saved from possibly serious injuries.
For tsunoda, qualifying was over. The driver got out of the car a moment later, a bit shaken, was brought to the Medical Center for the standard control. It seems questionable whether the Red Bull mechanics until the race on Sunday (from 3 p.m. in the LiveTicker at T-Online) succeed in repairing the completely destroyed car.