The Azerbaijan Grand Prix descended into chaos on the final lap of the race on Sunday with Esteban Ocon driving into a pit lane filled with mechanics and photographers.
In a scary near-miss in Baku, Alpine’s Ocon went to pit on the final lap of the race — as he was required to do so to meet the competition’s mandatory pit stop rules.
But as he entered the pit lane at the death, a large group of people had been allowed to enter the pit lane and move toward the pit wall with Sergio Perez heading towards the chequered flag.
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Luckily, Ocon reacted quick enough and no one was hurt — but serious questions will be asked over how people breached pit lane before the race was officially over.
“This is a shambles, absolute shambles,” pit lane reporter Ted Kravitz said on Sky Sports.
“That is a total and utter shambles in organisation.”
Karun Chandhok added: “A lucky escape. That was absolutely madness, to allow all those people into the pit lane when there was live racing going along. Absolute madness.”
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