The complaints regarding the design of Formula One recovery vehicles appear to be vindicated after a distressing Jules Bianchi crash video has surfaced online.
Bianchi suffered severe head injuries after his car crashed into a recovery tractor which was removing Adrian Sutil's car, leaving former F1 friver Martin Brundle recalling an incident in which he had a lucky escape during his racing days:
My concern is those things on track.
I nearly lost my life against one of them, just missed and hit a marshal. They are just too high and you are sitting down low.
The presence of the vehicles in such extreme conditions are supposedly a key issue that will be examined in the FIA's inquest into the crash but former world champion Jacques Villeneuve has called for safety cars to be deployed after every crash, when speaking to Autosport magazine:
The rules have to be changed concerning the safety car.
When I was racing, and afterwards, I was always saying that any time there is an accident there should be a safety car. There should not be room for judgment. If someone has to go out to pick up a car stranded on the track, it’s simple. Accident – safety car, and that’s it. It should have been like that for years. America has had that forever.
Meanwhile. doctors have released a statement this morning saying that Bianchi remains in a critical but stable condition.
Warning: The footage of Bianchi's crash, below, contains images that some may find distressing.
