“They need to do something. We’ll be playing with fire in a couple of weeks. Again. And not just us, the F2 kids, the F3 kids, everyone who goes through that Spa curve every week.. Even if it’s dry and someone loses their car, it’s blind, you hit the wall and you’re back in the middle of the track. If a car is coming at you at more than 300 kilometers per hour, you’re fried.”
This is how Lance Stroll (Aston Martin) summed up the sorrow felt by the entire grid, the pain and concern, after the death today at the Belgian circuit of the Dutch driver Dilano van’t Hoff, whoLike what happened in 2019 with Anthoine Hubert, he has been the victim of a lack of visibility, inside the cars, and also outside. for the particular design of the mythical layout of the Ardennes.
“I don’t know, really, if it’s the track or it’s just the speed and the visibility”says Fernando Alonso. “I think the most important thing is visibility. It’s not that we can’t drive in wet conditions, when we see all these red flags and delays and frustrated fans at home and things like that. That’s how the cars work now, and visibility It’s so bad that we can’t drive on certain circuits at certain speeds,” he admits.
The tragic accident in F2 in Belgium recorded from the stands
“So I don’t know if it’s a problem with Spa itself. I guess in Monza, if you find a car in the middle of the straight, you won’t see it, it’s something we can’t let happen again. It has to be the last time that happens. And of course it would change a dangerous curve,” he says of the Raidillon and the start of Eau Rouge. “Nobody wants to see any problematic or dangerous accident. There are urban circuits, like in Bak, where if you crash you will always be on the track, but you are at 120 km/h and the visibility is good. When you’re at 300, you can’t see anything.”
The thing is that in a month, the last appointment before the break, A Belgian GP arrives that opens a date but does not ensure that there will be no rain. “I hope that all the people involved in safety and who look after the safety of all the pilots take some measures, because it is not the first time and it should never have happened. We should never have been in a situation like this a few years ago.and it definitely needs an overhaul, we talk about it among the drivers in the meetings, but sometimes it doesn’t progress.”Stroll assured again, wearing a conspicuous black bracelet.
