Wolff and Vasseur took part in the Vegas event’s team principals’ press conference just after FP1 had had to be cancelled, due to a water valve cover being worked loose by Esteban Ocon’s Alpine and struck by Carlos Sainz’s Ferrari and Ocon’s Alpine on subsequent laps.
This was due to the high underfloor forces the current ground-effect era of F1 cars assert on street tracks, with the concrete surround on the valve cover in question failing after the cars had been running over it at top speed.
