Another tragedy could have happened: Gasly may have collided with a crane in Japan

In 2014, Jules Bianchi killed in accident at F1 Japanese GPThe French driver left the track due to complications and collided with a tractor that was evacuating his car. Adrian Suttle, turned off at Turn 7 on the Japanese track. Jules’ subsequent death led to many changes to the FIA’s safety protocols, and a few years later the ‘Halo’ (driver’s head protection) was introduced as a mandatory feature in his F1. It’s been in everyone’s memory before and after F1, so it’s unbelievable that the same situation was repeated in the same place, in the same place, in the wet. This Sunday, F1 GP 2022 in Japan featuring Gasly.

After leaving safely Carlos Sainz for sufferinghydroplaningAt Turn 1, the race was stopped with a red flag on lap three.it was always there Pierre Gasly was terrified. There was a ‘safety car’ on the course and the rain made visibility very poor and Pierre’s hair stood on end. until that moment, he didn’t realize he was on the runway.

Pierre, the only one to pit and put on Extreme Rain tyres, was the last driver to cross the area where the tow truck was running, as he was recovering his position with respect to the ‘safety car’. You’re rolling fast enough to lose your car and have a very dangerous accident.

“I could kill myself! Was that a tractor? That’s unacceptable!!! What happened? I can’t believe it!”, detonated on the radio at the moment it passed next to the crane. Another tragedy could have happened.

At that moment, a red flag panel was lit and indicated to Gasly, but the tow truck was already there and the car was rolling on the track. Something the FIA ​​has to look into to make sure it doesn’t happen again.

For this reason, when the Frenchman arrived at the pits, he got out of his car indignantly, complained in a clear gesture to the team’s communications manager, and later on his engineer’s wall, the extremely dangerous situation he had just experienced. warned about Filled with outraged social networks, everyone remembers the Jules Bianchi tragedy.

Guthrie, investigated

The FIA ​​responded to what happened by confirming that Pierre Gasly had already been presented with a red flag and that the Frenchman was driving at high speed.

Regarding the recovery of the machine from the accident on the third lap, the safety car was removed and the race was neutralized. Gasly, who was damaged during the safety car and stopped, was running at high speed to catch up. It got worse, so a red flag was shown before car #10 passed the scene of the incident where damage had occurred on the previous lap,” the FIA ​​said.

For this reason, Pierre Gasly was investigated and asked to testify to the stewards for failing to follow red light procedures.