Good lord, what a clown show. How have these tracks not done a simple walk thru to check on this stuff. Very similar issue happened in Melbourne and ruined Ricciardos race when he hit a hidden drain just off the track.
Also saw some video of the same cover nearly ruining Leclerc's car before it blew up the Wiliams.
Its confirmed Williams needs a new chassis for Russel and I've heard they may be scraping the bottom of the barrel for spare parts (he also damaged his PU apparently). Which dovetails nicely into rumours that they're actually for sale (or major cash infusion -
https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/w...zepin/4376110/)