Lance Stroll and Alex Albon crashed in separate incidents at the Dutch Grand Prix on Friday, bringing out two red flags during FP2. The Aston Martin driver was the first to find the wall in a hard hit at the tricky Turn Three, while Williams’ Thai-British star suffered a huge lock-up on the entry into the first corner.
Stroll enjoyed an excellent FP1 session for Aston Martin, who carried their momentum over from the Hungarian Grand Prix with a strong start at the Zandvoort Circuit. He was third-fastest in first practice, but that run didn’t translate into a successful FP2 outing. He went in deep at the banked Turn Three, hitting the wall hard and causing significant damage to his AMR25 machine. The collision triggered a red flag delay.
Shortly after FP2 resumed, flying runs were halted again. Isack Hadjar pulled over to the side of the track with a technical issue, triggering a virtual safety car from race control.
When the action restarted, Albon came a cropper at Turn One. The Williams racer emulated Max Verstappen’s slip-up at the end of FP1, locking up hard at the end of the start-finish straight and hitting the barriers. The contact damaged his front wing, and left the car beached in the gravel, triggering a second red flag.
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