Schumacher explains what triggered “weird” Monaco GP crash

Schumacher’s heavy crash caused the Monaco race to be red-flagged, as the gearbox was broken off the back of his Haas car after he hit the barrier in the middle of the Swimming Pool complex and then slid into the Tecpro barrier at the exit.

At the time the German was mystified as to why he lost control so suddenly in the high-speed section of the track, while his engineer suggested on the radio that he might have tapped the barrier immediately beforehand, and thus broken…