Pierre Gasly: The Formula One driver Pierre Gasly said he was only a few metres from dying during the Japanese Grand Prix after he nearly crashed with a crane on the Suzuka track. Almost every driver on the grid affirmed in criticising the decision to use the car on the circuit, expressing his outrage at the occurrence.
The 2014 Japanese Grand Prix driver Jules Bianchi passed away as a result of the wounds he received when his car collided with a recovery vehicle. Despite the fact that the laws governing their use have since changed, a crane was once again deployed on track at Suzuka while cars were racing there in severe rain with poor visibility, which resulted in a heated response.
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When he passed the recovery vehicle on the racing line, AlphaTauri’s Gasly was catching up with the field behind the safety car at 200 km/h. “We lost Jules eight years ago in similar conditions, with a crane on track,” he said. “I don’t understand how eight years later we can see a crane on the racing line. I am extremely grateful that I am still standing. Still able to call my family, my loved ones, and nothing happened. I was two metres away from passing away today, which isn’t acceptable as a racing driver.”
The FIA will be asked to provide an explanation by the sport. The race should have been stopped and all of the vehicles should have retreated to the pit lane before the crane should have been used.
The international sporting code is clear that the race director of the FIA has the authority to decide whether to use recovery vehicles.
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As they circled behind the safety car before the race was stopped, other drivers were similarly furious that they had not been informed the rescue vehicle was on the course. At the drivers’ briefing on Friday, Sebastian Vettel, who was competing in Japan in 2014, raised the concern of recovery vehicles being used on the track too rapidly and expressed his shock at what had happened.
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