{"id":512715,"date":"2025-10-19T20:36:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T20:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/512715\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T20:36:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T20:36:16","slug":"carlos-sainz-goes-from-us-gp-hero-to-zero-with-kimi-antonelli-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/512715\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Sainz goes from US GP hero to zero with Kimi Antonelli collision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carlos Sainz dropped from United States GP Sprint race hero to zero in the main grand prix after retiring after colliding with Kimi Antonelli.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At Turns 15 and 16 on Lap 16, Sainz attempted to dive to the apex of the tight left-hander, but Antonelli swept in to take his normal racing line &#8211; and was biffed backwards in the gravel as Sainz&#8217;s front-wing was destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>The Spanish racer, who finished third in the Sprint, promptly retired after the contact as Antonelli continued on, with the stewards set to investigate the incident after the race.<\/p>\n<p>Antonelli is still running despite the damage sustained.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, no further action was taken against Alex Albon and Gabriel Bortoleto for contact in which the Williams spun on the first lap, whilst Esteban Ocon was cleared of a potential jump start after a quick investigation by the stewards.<\/p>\n<p>On Lap 11, Max Verstappen leads from Charles Leclerc, Lando Norris, Lewis Hamilton, and Oscar Piastri in fifth.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlos Sainz dropped from United States GP Sprint race hero to zero in the main grand prix after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[859,4199,1076,1074,1077,1075,997,707,4200,998,1073,1072,1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-512715","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-daniel-ricciardo","9":"tag-f1","10":"tag-f1-calendar","11":"tag-f1-live","12":"tag-f1-results","13":"tag-f1-standings","14":"tag-ferrari","15":"tag-formula-1","16":"tag-formula1","17":"tag-lewis-hamilton","18":"tag-max-verstappen","19":"tag-motorsport","20":"tag-racing","21":"tag-sports","22":"tag-uk","23":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115402754305624003","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}