Sebastian Vettel was left red-faced after pranging his Belgian Grand Prix winning Ferrari during a street demo run as part of the Milan F1 Festival ahead of this weekend's Italian Grand Prix at nearby Monza.
Following runs through streets by Ferrari teammate Kimi Räikkönen and Sauber's Marcus Ericsson, Vettel came around at speed, misjudged his braking, locked-up and the Ferrari slithered slowly into the plastic barriers lining the streets. Damage was not severe and appeared limited to the front wing.
Vettel said afterwards, "I apologised. I went with the car and the steering wheel of Kimi, who had the clutch on the other side. I didn't think about it, and at that point, I was too fast. I asked if it would be possible to change the wing to do two more laps for the fans. Obviously, it was my mistake, but that's OK."
The F1 Milan Festival is happening in parallel to the Italian Grand Prix weekend with the aim of taking "the excitement and passion of an F1 Grand Prix event into the very heart of the city" running from Wednesday, August 29th to Saturday, September 1st.
The event is free for all to attend in the Darsena area (literally ‘the dock’), centre of Milan's ancient, and now restored, Navigli water canals.
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