Bojan Vrbnjak
At the beginning of the second part of the qualifications GP of Turkey v Istanbul are for Formula 1 in FIA awkward scenes occurred. Although he was still on the track crane, who removed the car Nicholas Latifi, which flew off the track at the end of the first part, the race leadership gave the racers green light for Q2.
Racers they thus drove past in heavy rainy conditions eighth turn, where the crane was removing the car. The case quickly awoke Jules Bianchi, who is in the race for GP of Japan leta 2014 in similar conditions he flew off the track and crashed into a race car with all his might in the excursion zone. It's later French succumbed to severe injuries. And at the latest from this case onwards, they are racing cranes on the track a big topic. Nevertheless, there was such a scene in Istanbul, which was strongly condemned by many racers. “How on earth could you start the second part of the qualifiers if there is still a crane on the track? Haven’t you learned anything from the past ?,”Is a bentil former Formula 1 racer Marcus Ericsson.
"We knew this shouldn't happen,He said Daniel Ricciardo. "That was stupid. I’m sure we could wait another five minutes for the crane to retreat. I think they tried to finish the qualifiers before sunset and they acted hectic,”But the rules Alex Albon, with which Ricciardo also agrees. It's still in the pits Albon watched as the race car was removed on the track Williams, the traffic light still went green. “He was expecting us to get a five-minute signal. But it was only for a minute, then the green light came on. I thought the crane was removed very quickly, but they obviously didn't have enough time,He added Thai. Another “luck” was that the crane was on the track when the racers were going for fast laps.
Za Albon it was probably a misjudgment. “They certainly did not do this on purpose,”Added Albon. And this coincides with a later explanation FIA, in which the fear of twilight is not mentioned. Instead, the FIA reports that it was really about miscalculation and explain how this came about in the first place. “We dropped the race cars from the pits when the crane with the race car was moving towards the emergency exit. In doing so, we adhered to the information the race management received from the Clerk of the Course, meaning that the race car was to be removed from the track before the racers reached their warm-up lap in the eighth turn,”He explained Michael Massi, director of the FIA race.
And that’s exactly what quickly turned out to be wrong assessment. The race management responded immediately. “As soon as it became clear that there was an emergency exit to a stop when moving the crane with the racing car, we extended the area of double yellow flags from the eighth turn to the entrance to the seventh turn to slow down the racers," so Masi, who nevertheless admits the mistake and says that he would have acted differently when looking back. “It is quite clear that this is not the scenario we wanted to see. Now we would definitely do differently and keep the race cars in the pits until the race car is removed. We will check our performance to reduce the likelihood of similar incidents, ” Ends Australian.
