Leclerc had vision problems after his 60G Monza crash
Charles Leclerc walked away from a 60G Parabolica impact, but his first worry was not his neck. It was his right eye.
Charles Leclerc briefly lost clear vision in his right eye after his 60G crash at Monza, and will have further medical checks before the Spanish Grand Prix in Madrid this weekend. He said so himself in the media pen after the race, unprompted.
“The neck was OK, it was just the vision a little bit at first, the right eye was not showing me great vision, but now it’s all good, so that’s the thing I was most worried of getting out of the car,” he said.
A 60G hit into the tyre barrier at the Parabolica
Leclerc was racing Oscar Piastri on the second lap when the rear of the SF-26 came round at the exit of the Parabolica, now officially Curva Alboreto. There was no contact with another car. He went across the gravel and into the tyre barrier at 60G, hard enough to bring out the red flag.
He climbed out unaided, was seen by the FIA doctors trackside and then went to the medical centre, which is mandatory once the onboard G-sensors are triggered. He was cleared and released in time to do his media duties, and it was there that he mentioned his eye.
Leclerc calls it his own mistake, with one caveat
He did not look for an excuse. “I lost the rear, as simple as that, it’s my mistake,” he said. “I just lost the car, it’s my fault.” Asked what happened, he was blunt: “I tried to push, but I lost it in Parabolica and crashed.”
He did note one thing worth checking. “I think from Lap 1 to Lap 2, I had a bit of a difference in power delivery. We’ll look into it,” he said, while declining to draw conclusions before seeing the data. That is a data question for Ferrari, not an explanation he offered for the crash.
Further checks before Madrid, as a precaution
“I think I’ll have quite a few additional checks that we still have to do on my side, probably tonight and tomorrow, to make sure that I’ll be fully fine for Madrid,” Leclerc said. On whether he expects to be cleared: “It should be the case, but yeah, better be safe than sorry.”
Beyond the eye he reported general soreness, which he described as normal after an impact of that size. Neither Ferrari nor the FIA has issued anything beyond the trackside clearance.
Ferrari’s home weekend had already come apart at Turn 1
The crash was the second thing to go wrong. Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton started third and fourth, and went side by side into the first chicane on the opening lap. Hamilton came off worse, running onto the gravel at the exit and dropping down the order.
“Charles pushed me off,” Hamilton said on the radio. Leclerc did not dispute it afterwards. “Here it’s true, though, that we went too far, I think, with Lewis in Turn 1,” he said.
Two laps later the sister car was in the barrier. Ferrari left its most important race of the year with Hamilton sixth and Leclerc out, in front of a full house of tifosi. The full result is on our Italian Grand Prix 2026 results page, and the race is covered in our Monza race report.
Our view: the eye is the only part of this that matters this week
A 60G accident that ends with the driver walking away and joking with reporters is a story about how good modern cars are. The vision is different. Leclerc named it as the thing he was most worried about when he got out, which is not language drivers use lightly, and he is having checks he would not otherwise need.
Everything else can wait. The power delivery question, the first lap contact between two team mates at Ferrari’s home race, the third retirement of his season, all of it is a conversation for Wednesday. Until he is signed off for Madrid, the rest is noise.
