The suspension of the car was already broken and stuck against the track's guardrail, so naturally, Pérez couldn't simply drive away himself.
Therefore, the race officials issued a red flag and instructed Matthew at the trackside to deploy a crane to lift Pérez's car off the track.
Since a crane was used, Pérez's car inevitably left the ground while being lifted away.
At this point, photographers waiting for an opportunity at the trackside rushed over to Pérez's car like sharks smelling blood. They raised their cameras and took rapid shots of the underside of Pérez's car, and promptly sent these photos to the email inboxes of team principals.
Before the ground effect era, such situations didn't usually occur on the racetrack. Even if a car was lifted up due to a crash, at most, one or two photographers would take pictures of the underbody for novelty's sake.
