Yahoo Autos Red Bull F1 Team Principal Christian Horner: 'It's Rude to Look Up People's Skirts'
Formula 1 returned to action in Monaco and Autoweek rounds up some of the off-track talking points through the course of the weekend.
Totally Rude, Folks
One unusual element of Monaco’s grand prix is crashed cars being craned high up into the air before being safely placed outside the track. And with cars being lifted up it creates an opportune moment for photographers to quickly snap images of the rarely-seen but aerodynamically crucial floor layouts of various Formula 1 cars, an element which is regularly masked from sight.
Lewis Hamilton crashed in practice, with Sergio Perez then shunting in qualifying, meaning the world got a good view of the underside of both the updated Mercedes W14 and Red Bull’s dominant RB19.
“It’s very rude to look up people's skirts really,” joked Red Bull boss Christian Horner. “Pictures or floors get taken in around the paddock. Each team will be employing spy photographers to get pictures of the cars when they're in parts and pieces, that's common practice.”
Tsunoda Recounts Imola Floods in New Hometown
AlphaTauri is based in Faenza, one of the towns worst affected by the floods that prompted the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix to be canceled, and it is where Yuki Tsunoda resides. Tsunoda was pictured assisting AlphaTauri team members with the clean-up operation and recounted the devastation.
“I would say consistently for three days and most of the town where I live in Faenza was just completely flooded,” he said. “Just mud everywhere, covered by mud. I was just staying safe in the night when the rain was coming but I was also worried because consistently the electricity got shut down in my house as well.
"I never expected the things like that, that horrible things will actually happen in front of me. But suddenly it happened in front of me, just this completely different feeling to what I was watching TV, just so scared. You know, just consistently having to worry about, like, the ground floor. Luckily, I have the second floor so I was staying on the second floor all the time. Helicopters were also flying around and I could tell that, you know, they were already starting to help the people from the houses.”
AlphaTauri carried a message of support for Emilia Romagna on the AT04’s halo, while both Formula 1 and Ferrari have donated to the recovery fund. Food and water that was present at Imola for paddock personnel and for hospitality purposes was donated to a local food bank. The race trophies are among items that are up for auction – with the proceeds to go towards the region’s recovery.
