GEORGE RUSSELL sparked chaos in a wild practice day at the Singapore Grand Prix.<br /><br />Two red flags, a pit lane collision, and a FIRE gave stewards a very busy Friday.<br /><br />FP1 started with the rear brakes of Alex Albon’s Williams catching fire in the sweltering heat of the Marina Bay Street Circuit.<br /><br />Team boss James Vowles later confirmed the brakes had reached temperatures of over 1000 degrees before Albon was forced to retire.<br /><br />But Mercedes ace Russell then sparked more chaos in FP2 as his car went straight into the barriers at Turn 16.<br /><br />As he attempted the right-hand err, he lost the rear before the snap correction sent him flying into the wall and prompting the first red flag of the session.<br /><br />It was an incident labelled "weird" by the Briton over the team radio.<br /><br />Liam Lawson followed suit not long after as he hit the wall in the runoff of Turn 17.<br /><br />That saw his front-left go flying down the track and the plank under his car grind along the floor as his Racing Bulls drive skidded to a halt at the pit lane entrance.<br /><br />And following the restart, Charles Leclerc bizarrely smashed into McLaren's Lando Norris in the pit lane following an unsafe release from the Scuderia mechanics.<br /><br />Both have been summoned by race stewards over the incident, which is likely to result in some penalty for the Ferrari driver.<br /><br />A total of 22 minutes of the hour-long session were lost through the various incidents.
