Damon Hill says "stop racing in the wet" to improve safety after Danilo van 't Hoff tragedy

Damon Hill called for an end to racing in heavy rain to prevent more motorsport tragedies.
Damon Hill
Damon Hill

Teenaꦡge driver Dilano van 't Hoff died on Saturday at the famous Spa-Francorchamps circuit, in a Formula Regional European Championship race.

Anthoine Hubert lost his life a⛄🧸t the same circuit four years ago.

Hill, and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fernando Alonso, insist that 😼racing in the wet is the most dangerous factor, as opposed to the Spa🐷 circuit itself.

“Any♕time you’ve got a long straight and wet 💯conditions, this can happen,” Hill was quoted by .

“I was watching the F3 race earlier and they were going up to turn three, the guys 💦at the back would have no idea what was going on in front of them.

“Wet condi🌼tions really are the worst contributor to this. Not being able to see where you're going and it sounds like he was hit the same way Anthoine was hit. That's a very large impact.

“What can we do about it? Stop racing in the wet, only race when you can see, or make cars indestructible in that way and make it more🔯 possible for drivers to survive. 

“The FIA will be looking 🐠into all of those factor♕s.

“I was as guilty as an🤪yone, we were watching the F3 race and saying 'come on we want to see a wet race’. 

“We want to see wet racing! It's exciting and action-packed but unfortunately it does conceal this terrible risk of something like 💟that happening.”

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Alonꦑso added: “The visibility in wet cond💛itions is incredible in single-seaters now.

“When we see red flags and delays, people at home don’t understand why we do that. It’s not for grip or because we cannot control the c🎃ar. Of course we can.

“We cannot see any🔯thing. So if there’s a car in the middle of the straight, it’ꦰs a real danger.

“What happened should not be repeated.

“The spray o🌺f the cars needs to be studied 🌸to reduce it.

“I don’t🍃 know if ꧑Spa is the problem. At Monza it would be the same thing.

“ꦕIf there’s a car in the middle of the straight you 🧸would not be able to see it. This is the real problem.”

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen said: “I don’t think it was necessarily♊ that corner. It can happen anywhere.

“We can look into the visiꦓbility and spray of the cars.

“I don’t think they should have restarted that race, ifꦦ you look at how much water theꦑre was.

“Guys at the back have nothingꩵ to lose and just go flat-out, this is a young driver’s mentality. Fearless.”

Lance Stroll, however, believ🍨es that the Spa track layout must be changed to imꦑprove safety.

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