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Ferrari has confirmed that a mechanic suffered multiple leg fractures at the Bahrain Grand Prix on Sunday after being run over during a botched pit stop for Kimi Raikkonen.

At his second stop of the race on Lap 35, Raikkonen was prematurely released from his pit box before all four tyres had been attached to his car. One of the three mechanics working on the left rear, which had yet to be changed, was hit and dragged to the floor as the car accelerated away. Replays showed the car made contact with the mechanic's leg.

The injured mechanic was immediately tended to by medical crews in the pit lane. GIUSEPPE CACACE/AFP/Getty Images

Raikkonen was immediately told to slow his car to a halt, ending his race. It was immediately clear there was an issue as medical staff arrived at the rear of Ferrari's pit box.

Having been taken to hospital during the race, the mechanic -- later confirmed to be Francesco Cigorini -- was confirmed to have suffered a shinbone and fibula fracture in the incident. There were clearly mixed emotions after the race as Raikkonen's teammate Sebastian Vettel celebrated victory on the podium.

Apparently a shinbone and fibula fracture, our thoughts are with Francesco, stay strong #BahrainGP — Scuderia Ferrari (@ScuderiaFerrari) April 8, 2018

#Seb5 'It's a mixed feeling day, I'm sending my best wishes to him I know our guys are all taking care of him' #BahrainGP — Scuderia Ferrari (@ScuderiaFerrari) April 8, 2018

Speaking about what happened and why his car moved prematurely, Raikkonen told Sky Sports: "I go when the light is green, I don't see what happens behind. Unfortunate that he got hurt, but my job is to go when the light changes. Any more [than] that, I don't know really. Hopefully he's OK."

The FIA later handed Ferrari a fine of 50,000 Euros for releasing Raikkonen's car in an unsafe condition.</s>TV viewers were left shocked as Ferrari driver Kimi Raikkonen seemed to break the leg of one of his crew during a pit stop.

The mechanic - who was fitting the Finn's rear tyre - was taken to hospital after the horrific event, which was being shown live on Sky Sports Formula One channel.

The accident seemed to be a huge error from the team - who signalled that the driver could move off even though the car wasn't ready.

As the Finn pulled off his rear tyre hit the unlucky crew member - leaving his leg to buckle in a sickening way.

The team tweeted soon after the incident: "Our mechanic was taken to hospital for treatment".

They later added: "Apparently a shinbone and fibula fracture, our thoughts are with Francesco, stay strong."

The mechanic involved, Francesco Cigarini, is an experienced member of Ferrari's pit crew and has worked for the team for a number of years.

Raikkonen then retired from the race as the tyre was not connected properly.

He told reporters later: "I don't know what shape he is in. It is not great for him. I go when the light is green. Not much to say.

"We did not finish the race, so it is not great but this is what happens sometimes."

And F1 fans were quick to condemn the 38-year-old former World Champion for not checking on the mechanic after he jumped out his car.

Other shocked viewers wrote: "I've lost all respect for Kimi Raikkonen. Snaps mechanics leg in half, throws a tantrum and goes straight into the garage, doesn’t even check on him."

However others backed the driver: "I’m sorry but those of you slating Kimi Raikkonen for his reaction after having to retire because of the unsafe release and not going to check the mechanic, he might not of even noticed what happened.

"Plus if he did him going over would just get in the way of the medics."

Ferrari tweeted during the race: "13 laps to go but we are all thinking about our man, waiting to know more after the treatment."

Sebastian Vettel went on to win the race, but Ferrari called it a "hollow victory" and said they were still waiting for news.

Finland's Valtteri Bottas was a close second for Mercedes with team mate and reigning champion Lewis Hamilton third.

In the post match interview Vettel said the team were sending all their best wishes.

Channel 4 commentator Ben Edwards said: “Leg broken. You can see one of the guys in a lot of pain."

Former Formula One driver Jolyon Palmer told the BBC: “No, no, no! What happened there!?

“Raikkonen is distraught, he just chucked the steering wheel back into the cockpit.

“We still have to think about the mechanic who is down on the ground. A nasty incident.”

In 2013 a British cameraman was hurt after being hit by a loose wheel following a botched pit stop involving Red Bull's Mark Webber at the German Grand Prix.

Webber's right rear wheel came off as he pulled away from his pit box and hit cameraman Paul Allen, who suffered a broken shoulder and cracked ribs.

Allen, who works for FOM, Formula 1's in-house broadcaster, was taken to hospital and kept "under observation".</s>Ferrari mechanic Francesco Cigorini suffered a broken leg when he was run over by Kimi Raikkonen during a pit stop in the Bahrain Grand Prix.

 Ferrari’s pit system showed a green light to Raikkonen, indicating he could exit the pits, despite mechanics not having changed his left rear wheel.

 Cigorini suffered a fracture of the tibia and fibula in his left leg and was taken to hospital.

 Ferrari have been fined 50,000 euros by race officials for an unsafe release.

 The incident forced Raikkonen’s retirement from third place because it is forbidden to return to the track with tyres of different compounds on the car.

Ferrari have declined to say what went wrong to cause their pit system to trigger the green light until governing body the FIA has completed its investigation into the incident.

 The team will want to know what caused the normal fail-safes that all teams have built into their procedures to be overridden in the circumstances of the stop.

 Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel won the race to take a 17-point championship lead over Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton but said the incident had left “mixed feelings”.</s>A Ferrari mechanic has been hospitalised after being hit by Kimi Raikkonen during a botched pit stop at the Bahrain Grand Prix.

The Finn was released too early, with the rear-left tyre yet to be changed, and the same wheel struck the unsuspecting mechanic, whose left leg bore the brunt of the impact.

The incident came as Ferrari pondered how best to deal with Mercedes' one-stop strategy, with Raikkonen running in third at the time and team-mate Sebastian Vettel in first.

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Raikkonen pulled up immediately - and retired from the race - after frantic calls to do so over the team radio, while the mechanic received treatment in the pit lane.

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Differing tire strategies for Scuderia Ferrari and Mercedes AMG Petronas produced a thrilling finish to Sunday’s Bahrain Grand Prix.

Pole sitter, and leader for most of the race, Sebastian Vettel started the race on super soft Pirelli tires before switching to the softs on a Lap 18 pit stop. Mercedes’ Valtteri Bottas started on the super softs as well, but the team put Bottas on medium compound Pirellis during their stop on lap 21.

Mercedes started Hamilton on soft tires, and he worked his way from ninth on the grid up to fourth in the first stint, which featured a thrilling three-wide pass into Turn 1, in which he passed Nico Hulkenberg, Sergio Perez, and Fernando Alonso in one move.

Hamilton pitted on Lap 26, the team also putting him on mediums.

The differing tire strategies set up a showdown in the second half of the race, with Ferrari looking at a two-stop strategy, while Mercedes went with one stop. However, Ferrari changed their strategy following a disastrous pit stop for Kimi Raikkonen on Lap 36, in which he left early and clipped one of the crew members with the left-rear tire.

The left-rear had also been left loose on Raikkonen’s SF71H, forcing him to come to an immediate stop on the pit lane, while medical personnel tended to the injured crew member.

In terms of race strategy, Ferrari opted to call an audible to keep Vettel out the rest of the way, hoping that their soft tires would last and that Bottas and Hamilton would not catch him.

While Hamilton was a little too far back in third to catch the front two, Bottas put on a charge in the final ten laps to close right on the back of Vettel, getting within DRS range with two laps remaining.

However, despite being on better tires – Vettel’s softs had clearly gone passed their point of usefulness – Bottas could not find a way around Vettel, who did a superb job of holding Bottas at bay to take the win, his second in a row to start the 2018 FIA Formula 1 World Championship season, and on his 200th career start as well.

Bottas and Hamilton ended up second and third to complete the podium.

Behind the top three, Scuderia Toro Rosso’s Pierre Gasly put in the best performance of his young F1 career, starting fifth and running a strong and clean race the entire way to finish an outstanding fourth, the team’s best result since Carlos Sainz Jr. finished fourth at last year’s Singapore Grand Prix.

The result earned Gasly “Driver of the Day” and set off a frantic and enthusiastic celebration for the Toro Rosso team.

Haas F1 Team’s Kevin Magnussen finished a stout fifth, rebounding from the team’s disappointment from the Australian Grand Prix, followed by Renault Sport F1 Team’s Nico Hulkenberg in sixth. The McLaren F1 duo of Fernando Alonso and Stoffel Vandoorne finished seventh and eighth, putting both cars in the points for the second race in a row.

Alfa Romeo Sauber F1’s Marcus Ericsson used a one-stop strategy to finish a brilliant ninth, scoring the team’s first points of 2018, while Sahara Force India’s Esteban Ocon finished 10th, also scoring the first points of 2018 for his team.

Red Bull Racing’s efforts, however, came to a disastrous halt in the early laps. Max Verstappen suffered a left-rear puncture following contact with Hamilton on Lap 2 after trying an inside pass in Turn 1 – the right-front of Hamilton’s W09 having touched the left-rear of Verstappen’s RB14 on corner exit as they battled for tenth.

Ahead of them, Daniel Ricciardo, who ran in fourth at the end of Lap 1, came to a halt just after the Verstappen contact, his RB14 suffering a sudden loss of all power, briefly forcing a Virtual Safety Car so his chassis could be removed from the circuit.

Verstappen, meanwhile, was forced to retire after incurring too much damage from his puncture.

The double DNF drops Red Bull behind McLaren to fourth in the constructor’s championship, with two races down in 2018.

Results are below. Formula 1 heads to the Shanghai International Circuit for the Chinese Grand Prix next week.</s>The Ferrari mechanic bowled over by Kimi Raikkonen has sustained a fractured tibia and fibula following a catastrophic pit stop at the Bahrain Grand Prix.

The mechanic, named by Ferrari as Francesco Cigarini, was taken to a nearby Bahraini hospital on Sunday night after the dramatic incident on lap 36 when Raikkonen pitted for a second time.

Raikkonen was not at fault for the collision. He was instructed to leave his marks after a green light was issued, but his left-rear tyre was still to be fitted.

Unaware, Raikkonen knocked the Ferrari crew member down as he pulled away at speed. The mechanic was laid flat out on his back in obvious agony. Raikkonen stopped in the pit lane seconds later after realising what had happened.

Formula One's sporting federation, the FIA, fined Ferrari €50,000 for "releasing the car in a manner endangering team personnel and causing injury".

A Ferrari spokesperson confirmed that the mechanic is due to undergo surgery in Bahrain. The Italian team also said that they will launch a full investigation into the harrowing incident.

Commenting on the accident, Raikkonen, who retired from the race, said: "My job is to go when the light is green. We did not finish the race, so it is not great but this can happens sometimes."

Raikkonen's Ferrari team-mate Sebastian Vettel claimed his second victory in as many grands prix after holding off a late surge from Valtteri Bottas, but his triumph will be bittersweet for the famous Italian team.

"I am a bit sad, because in the pit stop with Kimi one of our mechanics got injured," Vettel said. "I send him the best regards, and I'm sure the guys are looking after him."

Lewis Hamilton, who finished third, posted a message to his Twitter account following the race.

"My thoughts are with the injured mechanic," he wrote. "I wish him a speedy recovery."</s>Ferrari team driver Kimi Raikkonen failed to finish the Formula One race at the Bahrain GP over the pit-stop incident. When Raikkonen drove to the pit-stop, the pit crew member needed to fit a new left rear tire to the car, but as there was a problem with the removal of the old one, he was still in position and had not yet moved when Raikkonen was released back out onto the track. The mechanic suffered a fractured leg and has been taken to the hospital. Race officials have fine Ferrari 50,000 euros for an unsafe release.</s>A member of Ferrari’s Formula One pit crew suffered a gruesome injury at Sunday’s Bahrain Grand Prix when one of the team’s cars drove over his leg during a botched tire change stop.

Francesco Cigarini was trying to remove a stuck wheel when the car, driven by Kimi Raikkonen, was mistakenly lowered from its jacks and given the all clear to pull away.

Video of the incident shows the car’s left rear tire striking Cigarini’s lower leg and snapping it in the middle as he falls to the pavement.

Raikkonen immediately stopped the car and retired from the race as Cigarini was rushed to the hospital, where doctors confirmed he suffered fractures to both his tibia and fibia.

Cigarini took it in stride -- so to speak -- and later posted to Instagram that his surgery was “OK” and giving a thumbs-up in an image showing his full-leg cast.

Raikkonen told Sky Sports, "I go when the light is green. I don't see what happens behind. Unfortunately he got hurt, but my job is to go when the light changes,

Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel won the race, but the team was fined 50,000 euros for the unsafe release of Raikkonen’s car.

ARE YOU FOLLOWING FOX NEWS AUTOS ON FACEBOOK YET?</s>A pit stop gone awry resulted in a broken leg for a Ferrari team mechanic when driver Kimi Raikkonen’s car struck the mechanic after a failed tire change Sunday at the Bahrain Grand Prix.

As Raikkonen came in for a tire change, the rear left tire wasn’t properly secured when the driver was given a green light that resulted in an unsafe release. The car pulled away and the unsecured tire bowled into the leg of the mehanic.

Ferrari later tweeted that the mechanic likely suffered a “shinbone and fibula fracture.”

It was a day of mixed felings, however, as Raikkonen’s teammate Sebastian Vettel earned the victory.</s>A FERRARI mechanic suffered a double leg fracture at the Bahrain GP after a botched pit-stop saw Kimi Raikkonen released too soon from his marker.

Raikkonen was brought into the pits from third in an attempt to put pressure on Mercedes, but was given the signal to leave his stop when only three of his tyres had been replaced.

As the left rear tyre had not been taken off, when Raikkonen got back on the power he drove into a Ferrari mechanic, who was badly hurt as a stretcher was hurried towards the Scuderia garage.

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The mechanic - named only as Francesco - was taken to hospital for treatment, and the team confirmed he suffered a shinbone and fibula fracture.

WARNING: The video below contains distressing images

Ferrari were handed a 50,000 euro fine by the FIA for the unsafe release at the pit-stop.

Raikkonen was forced to retire because of the incident, and said afterwards: “I don’t know what happened. For sure, it’s not great for him.

“I go when the light is green. I don’t see what happens behind and unfortunately he got hurt. My job is to go when the light says so. Hopefully he’s OK.”

It was the second time across the Bahrain weekend that Ferrari botched a pit-stop after the team were fined for another unsafe release in Practice Two. Their partners, Haas, also had two retirements in similar circumstances at the Australian GP.

Sebastian Vettel went on to hold off both Mercedes to take victory in Bahrain, and paid tribute to the crew member on the podium.

“I’m a bit sad as I think in the pit-stop with Kimi one of our mechanics got injured, so send him my best regards,” he added. “It’s a mixed day.”

Ferrari’s own race report concluded: ‘Out on track, Bottas pursued Sebastian for 20 laps, but our driver never gave him room, even though his tyres were finished. That is Ferrari and that, Francesco, is for you. Hurry back.’
Ferrari Formula One driver Kimi Räikkönen hits a mechanic during a pit stop. The mechanic receives multiple leg fractures.