michael24 5 years
Correction: I forgot Toine's five broken ribs!

michael24 5 years
It's not not just GT's or single-seaters: I had my worst race as an engineer there a month after Anthoine Hubert was killed when my driver had a coming together with fellow Mazda Cup driver Toine Kreijne. Toine bounced off the barriers at the same place (righthandside) before ending up at the exact the same point as Anthoine. As with Anthoine, he too then suffered a very hard side-impact from someone still going at near full-tilt due to being unsighted. My driver saw it happen in his rearview mirror and was completely in tatters. That race was red-flagged and all drivers had to line up on SF and stay in there car. Great idea except for the minor inconvenience that my driver is severely distraught and I am trying to calm him down and find out if the other driver is okay. Guess what; you can't get any information what-so-ever. Toine's own team was in the dark and Race Control are not allowed to share anything with anyone. So while the medical team is fully focused on the extraction, I have nothing to calm my driver down and can't even walk over to him to give him a hug and/or just sit with him. That's just me and my driver. Now imagine it's your driver who has gone off! My team boss has been there and that is even worse. The way I figure it; when you get hurt, it hurts. When someone you care about gets hurt, the agony can be worse than being hurt yourself. We were lucky: Toine only broke his collar bone, cracked a few vertebrae and suffered a severe concussion. And you know what? I have yet to meet a driver who wants the layout of that corner to change!

ziomkris1 5 years
For sure it was a very horrible feeling for Lambo (Aitken?) when he ended in the middle of track... Same with Porsche not that long time ago

admin 5 years
Sometimes it is hard to imagine a safety-focused future where these amazingly impressive sequence of corners can continue to exist.