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The poor Jules Bianchi. Still so young, full of plans to somehow make the leap from the small to the big bad teams, where you can finally show what he is.
Author:. Anno Hecker, born in 1964, senior editor for Sports
Now it is hot, this likeable Frenchman was the victim of an unfortunate chain of events. Slipping from the end of a race just at the point where Adrian Sutil had not got in his Sauber at the curve becomes stronger rain just before him. At a time when because of Sutil’s accident “yellow flags” were waved, so every pilot has to reduce his pace. And yet Bianchi lost control of his car and crashed into a recovery vehicle. As unhappy as terrible fate.
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No, so you can easily make it not. Not in a highly professional sports such as Formula 1, which has designed for twenty years an exemplary standard of safety in motorsport and implemented. Since the fatal accident of Ayrton Senna and Roland Ratzenberger during the weekend of May 1, 1994 in Imola no pilot had lost his life. Although two marshals died in accidents, a third was hit by a tow truck.
But on the run survived thanks to the driver of continuous improvement in safety, even the most severe collisions: Constantly improved crash structures on the cars, a continuous upgrading of barriers, large run-off areas. It seemed to Sunday so as if the security experts thought of everything. Only unforeseeable, unavoidable situations could threaten their cars nor people’s lives. The fate.
Even a car is a lethal obstacle
What happened in Suzuka on Sunday, but was neither unpredictable nor unavoidable. There have been some accidents of this kind. A stationary car at a delicate point is a life-threatening obstruction. Therefore, jump racers if they are stranded with her car at the apex of a curve so fast from their cockpits and seek safety behind the catch fences.
You know that the next moment may fly another car like a bullet on them. How great is only a risk if not only a comparatively slight, the same high race car is in the way, but a very heavy wheel loader with iron body like on Sunday?
“Double Yellow flags” in great danger
The experienced Formula 1 race management is aware of this. Why yes were also “double yellow flags” swung as a request to reduce the speed massively. This rule frees the International Automobile Federation but not the responsibility, to minimize any further risk.
It was certainly tremendously difficult to assess the impact of the stronger rain by the race director positions and to simultaneously detect whether cars of the backbenchers had enough contact pressure due to their weak compared to Mercedes downforce yet to remain on the track can. But a wheel loader can not go on the piste terrain, if the race is still running. With a crane, placed behind the safety barriers, it would not come to this devastating accident.
The Formula 1 has done much for the safety of the pilots. It was not enough.
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