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He crashed at exactly the wrong time in the wrong place. The French Formula 1 driver Jules Bianchi got yesterday seriously injured during the Grand Prix of Japan. It is the worst accident in years in the premier class of racing. Five questions about safety in Formula 1.
1. What went wrong yesterday in Suzuka?
typhoon Phanfone was very rainy weekend in Japan. The game was halted yesterday after two laps because of the many rain. After a break of half an hour the race was resumed. But by the end of the game was the weather rain heavily and it was very slippery. In the 42th round the German Adrian Sutil of Sauber the job. Slipped A few minutes later it went completely wrong, exactly in the same place in the Dunlop Curve. At the moment the car Sutil was hoisted away by a wrecker, Jules Bianchi flew off the road and he hit the tow truck. The talented 25-year old driver of the team of Marussia was taken to hospital by ambulance close to the circuit. He was unconscious. Shortly after the accident, the race was permanently discontinued
Below the images of the crash of Sutil and then a shot after the crash of Bianchi, of which no pictures recorded or released:.
2. How is the driver who crashed?
The 25-year-old Bianchi yesterday underwent emergency surgery at the hospital and was then transferred to the intensive care unit. French media reported last night that he could breathe, but the BBC reported that there is still uncertainty about themselves again. Bianchi has kept to the accident in any case a serious head injury. His team Marussia called the outside world this morning in a statement for “patience and understanding” for the limited information available to date on the status of Bianchi has come. The team promises the next time regularly, in consultation with the family and the hospital, with updates on Bianchi to come out.
3. Are there often heavy crashes for in Formula 1?
Not anymore. In the time of former racing driver and triple world champion Niki Lauda, who yesterday reacted shocked, Formula 1 was still known for its disasters and fatalities. The Austrian crashed in 1976 on the old Nürburgring and could barely be saved. From blaze In the same year Lauda under similar conditions as yesterday specify in the Japanese Grand Prix at Fuji because he thought it was too dangerous. Would Lauda was driving at the time that the sport voltage, noise, petrol fumes and adrenaline produced. Sometimes things got out of hand, killed a driver. But at the grands prix were the stands full and everyone enjoyed the sport in which people in the extreme look their limit.
The Brazilian Ayrton Senna’s last Formula 1 driver who was killed in an accident. That was in 1994 Since then, many security measures. The cars were given a ‘survival cell’ of strong carbon fiber, the fuel tanks were replaced by tanks of high-quality fibers. The head and neck of the drivers are protected by the head and neck support system (HANS). And circuits have been run-off areas, gravel traps and trapping meter high fences. A comprehensive medical team can quickly intervene and bring victims by helicopter to the hospital.
In spite of all these measures could go wrong yesterday. Everyone realized suddenly that Formula 1 can be a very dangerous sport. “Everybody gets used to that nothing goes wrong, now we are suddenly all surprised,” said Niki Lauda.
4. Could this accident have been prevented?
about that question since yesterday fiercely debated. The heavy rainfall yesterday morning had already created a custom start procedure. Was racing in the beginning too dangerous, so began the drivers behind the so-called safety car. After the accident at the 44th lap, the race was red flagged and Lewis Hamilton, who was leading at the time, declared the winner.
Bianchi (in foreground) during the race yesterday. In the background we see Caterham driver Kamui Kobayashi. AFP Photo / Toru Yamanaka
The organization may choose to start up because of the expected rainfall. Race earlier Since earlier in the week was also discussed by the organization, but it was decided to keep. The scheduled start time to “We have not asked our opinion,” said Sutil. “It was clear that it was getting wetter and it was pretty easy to start the race. Earlier” There Lauda joins to. “They should start earlier. This was to provide “Even Williams driver Felipe Massa was critical:
” In my view, the race started too early, because it was not yet possible at the beginning to normally drive. Then the race was stopped too late. Five laps before the accident, I cried on the radio that it was too wet to track for racing. However, they have waited too long and that is very dangerous. “
5. We are seeing more security?
That is still the question. Safe, responsible and durable car racing are preaching the International Automobile Federation FIA. Simultaneously, the fans that the sport has become. Boring and predictable “You come out of gas sooner than you arrive at the barrier,” it sounds cynical about large fallback options in addition to the circuit. The discontent is another addition to the criticism of the slight noise that the cars with their hybrid engines this season produce.
The safety car drove yesterday at the start of the race at the front because of the heavy rainfall Suzuka. AFP Photo / Toshifumi Kitamura
It draws the paradox of motor racing: nobody wants victims, but no one wants a sport without risk. For risks associated with simply the challenge of car racing. The ambivalence manifested itself recently in the discussions about the ‘Parabolica’, one of the most famous corners on the circuit of Monza. The hairpin always took care of sensation, many a driver ended up in the gravel. As of this season that will not happen, most gravel has been replaced by asphalt. “It will never be the same curve,” sighs fans and some drivers.
And Suzuka is correct when drivers popular because it is a real classic racing circuit is a kind of roller coaster with fast corners and little outdoor space.
With the cooperation of Pim van den Dool
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