That’s the large query. It’s clearly clear that Spa is a harmful circuit that has not been geared up with state-of-the-art safety measures
August 5, 2021 (11:23 PM CET)
Juan Manuel Correa in full line in the most harmful space of Spa in 2019
The FIA is at stake in Spa at the finish of the month. The observe is judged as protected by FIA regulatory requirements, due to this fact it has homologation grade 1. What occurs if an accident like that of Athoine Hubert and Juan Manuel Correa is reproduced in the F2 race on August 31, 2019? Or like that of Jack Aitken and Davide Rigon in the 24 hours of July 31? What would occur if in a hypothetical accident the protagonists have been Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso and one of them suffers critical accidents or is killed? Why is there no Tecpro?
What penalties wouldn’t it have for F1 and particularly for the FIA? Would they discover themselves responsible? Can the FIA risk such a factor with out treatment?
In Montmeló after the Senna accident in 1994, a chicane with tires was shortly positioned and working in the Nissan nook to scale back velocity, then that chicane was made of asphalt and at last it was discontinued and the conventional quick nook structure was returned, as soon as the concern of one other accident had handed, with that of Ayrton Senna in reminiscence.
Spa shouldn’t be Montmeló and issues are way more sophisticated, however they need to be engaged on these holidays, if not they’ve completed it in two years, to reach at the Belgian GP with a simpler resolution than simply saying that it’s homologated and nothing extra.
What options might be utilized in the Raidillon space? In the time that there are only a few, if not none, left.
In Correa’s accident, neither the vehicles nor the protections did their job
The Tecpro obstacles which might be positioned in the most trendy circuits are conspicuous by their absence in Spa. Tire obstacles are used with the “rubber belt” “conveyor belt” in entrance as a belt to present them larger consistency. What’s being seen in this sort of safety is that it’s insufficient in many circumstances and Spa is a good instance.
I have no idea if because of the outdated age of the tires, as a result of they don’t have the newest polypropylene tube methods inside, as new circuits are required, though they don’t host F1 races or coaching, nor have they got grade 1 the FIA, or just because given the present speeds they’re inappropriate, the tire obstacles must be urgently changed by Tecpro in the complete space of Raidillon, Stavelot, Puhon and many others, that other than taking different measures to enhance velocity intervention.
That is how Raidillon was in 2016 when Magnussen crashed
Trip time, factories closed or little need to repair it, I don’t know what the excuse shall be, however the FIA takes a large risk by leaving that space of the circuit like this. We are saying that space as a result of on the descent to Puhon and Stavelot, the tire piles don’t soak up something both, and however a good instance is one other accident that occurred at 24H in which the automobile was despatched again to the observe, though the escape may be very giant and it didn’t invade any space of the observe as such. In that space, a BMW owned by Teo Martín was destroyed, which made Roldán Rodríguez lose his place in the crew since they needed to search for paid drivers to have the ability to pay for the complete loss of Teo’s M635, which crashed in that space of Spa and the place the tires didn’t soak up something.
That is how Raidillon was in 2016 when Magnussen crashed
The state of affairs is sophisticated and we’ll see if the pilots don’t demand extra safety measures and we return to the sittings of yesteryear, though we’re in different instances and if somebody has the intention of revealing himself, if he isn’t referred to as Lewis Hamilton, it’s troublesome for them to hearken to him .
The quickest resolution to resolve the downside of fast intervention can be for the FIA to have in the space, with the command to activate the digital flags, a particular commissioner, with the energy to activate, not the yellow flag, however the crimson flag. at their discretion, with out having to attend for the crimson flag order to be given from the management room.
That is how tire obstacles with tubes in the center must be
These 14 seconds that elapsed between the Aitken accident and the passage of vehicles already at decreased velocity by way of the accident space might be decreased to virtually 1 ”. Clearly the automobile that follows the one that will stay on the observe will be unable to keep away from it, since in that space you can not brake or elevate your foot, given the traits of the observe, however the relaxation would see the crimson flag instantly and it could decelerate drastically. That particular commissioner with the energy to make the determination must be coated always from the management room. If the race must be relaunched once more or if a new begin or every other subsequent determination must be made, this must be secondary and nobody ought to query whether or not the race is stopped at any given second. It can at all times be higher to renew the race than to mourn some mortal sufferer.
This works for any class. In Spa there may even be the F3, the W Collection and the Porsche Cup.
The tires spring into impact and launch the automobile to the middle of the observe once more. don’t soak up
One other necessary level in Spa is to know the hospital to which the pilots are transferred after an accident. Whether it is nonetheless the CHU Liège ICU, it’s to run away, as Juan Manuel Correa left as quickly as he might earlier than dying for lack of a respirator in 2019 or as Jack Aitken left a few days in the past. The medical crew is excellent, however the means and the place are typical of the third world. An uncommon place to take anybody, least of all accident pilots. I can’t think about the family of Lewis Hamilton or any F1 driver, being there inside hours, with the driver struggling between life and loss of life. Sitting in a half-broken chair in a household ready room with a mild hanging from a wire, a large clock stopped, and rickety chairs and furnishings. Properly, that was the ready room in 2019 and of course with out a soul in a gigantic hospital, with disconnected escalators, with out mild, lighting up with the phone to go from one place to a different, and with out seeing a soul in half an hour of touring Estancias following exit indicators, which have been all closed as a result of it was 4 in the morning. You may go to the morgue, the warehouses, the chapel, make a strenuous tour and with out discovering the exit. That’s the darkest half of a profession.
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