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Since the accident, some voices were raised to question the safety of the race while the medium seemed to not know of such an accident gravity.
The Japanese Grand Prix was threatened by the arrival of Typhoon Phanfone, whose passage across the archipelago caused Monday, killing four people. The race was also interrupted after two laps, the track was too slippery, before returning twenty minutes later with eight new laps behind the safety car for the 22 cars.
The Brazilian driver Williams, Felipe Massa, who went to the bedside of Jules Bianchi, was soon pointed out the danger of the event:
“ I did not have very good visibility throughout the Race . To me, we started the Grand Prix there too early and ended late. Five laps from the checkered flag, I was screaming on the radio before the safety car came out, there was too much water. It was dangerous. “
Adrian Sutil, who had slammed the slide at Turn o 7 to the spot where Jules Bianchi has rugged, the start of the race should have been advanced because it “was obvious that [the track] was going to be more wet” . This hypothesis was proposed by the organizers and then abandoned
The Sauber driver also stressed the danger of Turn o 7. “Everyone knows that this area is one of the trickiest of the circuit, especially when the rain increases. If you have an accident here, you should probably think of the safety car. “ Instead, the direction of travel in order to free his vehicle, opted for the yellow flag, Jules Bianchi, obviously, has not seen.
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In strong terms, Alain Prost refused ., Canal +, invoking “fate” The quadruple world champion instead denounced “a fundamental error”
“For years we have done everything that F1 is safe, and she is at the cars and tracks. There, it seems incredible. This is perhaps the only point remaining unpaid. I think it could really anticipate. It was obvious that the track was becoming dangerous. It is essential to identify the error that it never again. “
” It’s been twenty years since we have not seen a serious accident in Formula 1 This generation was not used to this type of accident. For me it is not fate, because it comes from an outside agency. That shocks me, because I have the impression of seeing the 1980s, when there was this kind of accident every two or three races. It reminds me bad memories. “
In LCI, the old driver Jacques Laffite denounced ” unconsciousness organizers’
“There is enough money in Formula 1 for like Monaco, cranes and put out cars. At worst, if you can not do it, we did get a crane, we put the red flag or asks pilots to ride two at a time with a special flag, black, yellow, I do not know, as they want. “
” On some circuits, like Monaco, one of the cranes used with an advanced arm and go for the cars’ , insisted share the old driver Patrick Tambay on RMC:
“ It is possible to Monaco because it’s very tight. There, it would be more difficult. But you can put a cable or winch. This accident is likely to help open a roundtable about the things that are yet to be done. “
The triple world champion Jackie Stewart, who had been at the forefront in the 1960s to improve the safety of drivers, also believes that “the race director is not concerned” . “It is useless to speculate on what could have been done, one can not anticipate such a chain of unexpected events” , observed the Scots.
No serious accident had happened in F1 race since that of Felipe Massa in qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix in July 2009 The Brazilian, who then ran for Ferrari, was given to the figure a suspension part lost by his compatriot Rubens Barrichello, who preceded him. His helmet was destroyed, and the rider was hospitalized for concussion and injuries to his left eye. His season was over.
F1 has not lamented death in the race for two decades, ever since the death of Brazilian Ayrton Senna, 1 st May 1994 at Grand Prix in Imola, Italy, following the breakdown of the steering column of his Williams, according to the official version. The day before, in qualifying, Austrian driver Roland Ratzenberger the killed himself driving his Simtek.
The team Marussia mourned in October 2013 by the death, at age 33, his Spanish test driver Maria de Villota. More than a year ago, in July 2012, she suffered a terrible accident at Duxford Airfield English during an aerodynamic test. His car was not arrested and had crashed into a truck in the stable. The pilot had lost the sight of one eye.
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