Kimi Antonelli's huge accident during the Australian Grand Prix weekend has placed Mercedes at the top of F1's unofficial 'destructors championship.'
On Saturday morning in Melbourne, Antonelli spun at Turn 2 and destroyed his Mercedes, with team boss Toto Wolff describing the car as looking like "Lego" as the team faced a race against time to repair the car for qualifying, which it eventually did after Max Verstappen's Q1 crash allowed precious extra time.
That crash cost Red Bull around $350,000, according to the figures prepared by Redditor PabloGamer09, with Isack Hadjar's pre-season testing crash also costing Red Bull around $574,000.
However, this was not the second-biggest cost, with Oscar Piastri's embarrassing rash on the way to the grid in Melbourne costing McLaren $641,000.
In total, so far, crash damage has cost $3,492,000, with an average of $317,454 per the 11 drivers to have caused damage thus far.
Originally published by RacingNews365 —
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