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Italian Grand Prix 2026: Monegasque Formula 1 or F1 Driver Charles Leclerc suffered a massive crash during the Italian Grand Prix 2026 at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza in Italy on September 6, Sunday. In a video surfaced on social media, Leclerc’s vehicle crashed dangerously at Parabolica but fortunately he escaped any serious injury.
Leclerc had extracted himself from the car and sat hunched on the grass behind the barriers in the immediate aftermath. The field lined up again after a half-hour wait for the tyre wall to be rebuilt, with Mercedes’ George Russell leading. Leclerc had started the race in third place with teammate Lewis Hamilton alongside in fourth but the Briton tried to pass down the inside at the first corner, with the seven-time world champion forced wide into the gravel and plunging to 11th place.
LA CATASTROPHE POUR FERRARI, CHARLES LECLERC DANS LE MUR À LA PARABOLICA ! 🤯🤯🤯
Après avoir emmené son coéquipier dans les graviers, la course se termine pour le monégasque.
Le pilote est OK.#F1 #ItalianGP pic.twitter.com/9KpLnkXuTa
— Le Sprint (@LeSprintEdition) September 6, 2026
“Charles pushed me off,” Hamilton complained over the radio, in an incident noted by stewards, before the home race — in front of a record crowd at Monza — suddenly turned into even more of a nightmare.
Television replays showed Leclerc, in fourth place but under pressure from McLaren’s Oscar Piastri, had suffered wheelspin, touched the white line at the edge of the track and skewed off at speed at the end of lap two. The safety car was deployed and then the red flags came out on lap four. The initial restart had to be aborted when Racing Bulls’ stand-in Yuki Tsunoda was out of place on the grid.
“It was just my vision a little bit at first” – Charles Leclerc
The 28-year-old revealed that he was most worried about his eyesight after getting out of the vehicle but now it’s all fine. He told RacingNews365 the below:
“It was just my vision a little bit at first; the right eye was not showing me great vision. But now it’s all good. That’s the thing I was most worried of getting out of the car; then, after that, everything was a bit of pain here and there, which is normal after a crash like this. So nothing more. I think from Lap 1 to Lap 2, I had a bit of a difference in power delivery. We’ll look into it, but I don’t want to comment too much before checking the data and confirm it.”
It was a disappointing outing for Leclerc and Ferrari, given it was a home event for them.
(With inputs from Reuters)
