{"id":18436,"date":"2025-11-22T09:58:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T04:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=662120"},"modified":"2025-11-22T09:58:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T04:28:51","slug":"watch-video-alex-albon-clips-the-wall-in-chaotic-las-vegas-q1-but-still-limps-his-damaged-back-to-the-garage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/formula-1\/watch-video-alex-albon-clips-the-wall-in-chaotic-las-vegas-q1-but-still-limps-his-damaged-back-to-the-garage\/","title":{"rendered":"[WATCH VIDEO] Alex Albon clips the wall in chaotic Las Vegas Q1 but still limps his damaged back to the garage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Albon survived a dramatic moment during a wet and wild Q1 session at the Las Vegas Grand Prix after colliding with the wall \u2014 yet somehow managing to drive his heavily damaged Williams all the way back to the pits.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened during the final minutes of Q1, with drivers struggling for grip on a soaked circuit filled with standing water. Albon, pushing to escape the elimination zone, slid wide and made contact with the wall. Sparks flew, debris scattered \u2014 and for a moment it looked certain he\u2019d be out on the spot.<\/p>\n<p>But in a remarkable display of car control and quick thinking, Albon kept the battered FW46 running and guided it back to the garage at low speed, astonishing fans and commentators alike.<\/p>\n<p>Formula 1\u2019s official account posted the clip immediately after, captioning:<br \/>\n<strong>\u201cAlex Albon collides with the wall in Q1! \ud83d\udca5\u203c\ufe0f Just how <em>did<\/em> he get his car back to the pits?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Alex Albon collides with the wall in Q1! \ud83d\udca5\u203c\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>Just how did he get his car back to the pits \ud83e\udd2f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/F1?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#F1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LasVegasGP?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LasVegasGP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EX0v9m1b9a\">pic.twitter.com\/EX0v9m1b9a<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Formula 1 (@F1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/F1\/status\/1992087173265604879?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 22, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Williams mechanics rushed to inspect the car once it rolled into the pit lane, as the session ended with Albon knocked out in Q1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Albon survived a dramatic moment during a wet and wild Q1 session at the Las Vegas Grand Prix after\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":39171,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-formula-1"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}