Video footage has confirmed Verstappen tore off a visor in the opening stages and the small strip went into the right-front brake duct of Leclerc, who was racing directly behind.

I could not see anything with my visor, and all the drivers in front of me couldn’t see anything in their visors. “So it happened that, at the first moment of opportunity, we had to take off ...

Video footage has confirmed Verstappen tore off a visor in the opening stages and the small strip went into the right-front brake duct of Leclerc, who was racing directly behind.