SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Big lizards are a familiar sight in equatorial Singapore but they startled Red Bull's double world champion Max Verstappen and other drivers after straying onto the Formula One racetrack during practice on Friday.
Yellow flags were waved to warn of the danger of hitting one of the creatures, which can grow as long as three metres , as they languidly crossed the tarmac at dusk during the hour-long session.
Local fauna are not uncommon company, with drivers used to groundhogs and foxes on Canada's Gilles Villeneuve circuit in Montreal. Malaysia, now no longer on the calendar, had an occasional problem with snakes. "Ah. There's a lizard again on the track. A smaller one this time," he said over the team radio in Friday's session.Singapore's National Parks' Board advises on its website that monitor lizards are typically shy, unless cornered, and to observe them from afar.
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