The cause of Kevin Magnussen’s scary race-ending Mexico City GP shunt revealed

Haas boss Guenther Steiner has confirmed that the cause of Kevin Magnussen’s race-ending crash at the Mexico City Grand Prix was “heat-related”, resulting in suspension failure.
Kevin Magnussen (DEN) Haas VF-23 crashed out of the race. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 20, Mexican Grand Prix, Mexico
Kevin Magnussen (DEN) Haas VF-23 crashed out of the race. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd…

Magnussen suffered a heavy crash on Lap 34 of the race in Mexico, resulting in a brief red flag stoppage as marshalls 🦩were forced to repair the barrier.

The Dane’s rear-suspension broke when coming up to the sweeping bends in ꦿthe m𒁏iddle section of the track.

Magnussen’s Haas was completeꦜly destroyed, capping off a dismal day for the team.

Steiner said after t꧟he race: “With Kevin, he had a suspension failure, so we need to dig into why that happened, but 👍it seems to be heat related – we need to check. It was a tough day again, but it’s not all negative.”

The damaged Haas VF-23 of Kevin Magnussen (DEN) Haas F1 Team, who crashed out of the race. Formula 1 World Championship,
The damaged Haas VF-23 of Kevin Magnussen (DEN) Haas F1 Team, who crashed out of the race…

Refl🅺ecting on the incident, Magnussen revealed that he got “a knock꧂ on his hands” from the crash.

“I crashed after having a rear left suspension failure,” Magnussen explained. “It happened in a bad place and I hit the wall, sꩲo I got a kn🐽ock on my hands and they hurt a little bit, but they’re fine.

“We have to investigate a bit more what exactly happene🍸d as i🧔t just gave up.

“Before that, it was going okay, I was stuck in traffic for a long time and cooked my tyres, but I don’t know if whatever caused the fai𝐆lure had an impact for a while beforehand.”

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