Max Verstappen believes that the quite a few blind corners on the Jeddah Corniche circuit make it extra harmful than Spa.
Following the dying of Dilano van ’t Hoff on the weekend, which got here 5 years after Anthoine Hubert perished in related circumstances, drivers, led by Lance Stroll, have known as for adjustments to be made to the basic Belgian observe.
Nonetheless, Max Verstappen believes that the assorted blind corners on the super-fast Jeddah Corniche observe make the Saudi circuit much more harmful.
“It is, for positive, fairly a harmful nook he mentioned of the Eau Rouge/Raidillon complicated, “however we’re additionally going to Jeddah in Sector 1 and that, for me, might be extra harmful even.
“I am glad that nothing has occurred but in that sector,” he continued, “as a result of going by way of (Turns) 6, 7, 8, in case you have a shunt there that may be the identical – it is all blind, you do not know what’s coming.
“I keep in mind at first of the 12 months there, I received upset with my engineer as a result of I impeded Lando, I believe, and I understand how that feels.
“It is tremendous harmful when these items occur. And for positive, in Eau Rouge, going up, it’s blind, however after all this accident occurred later (on the Kemmel Straight).
“I believe the one factor that possibly might be improved there’s to make extra space when it comes to attempting to maneuver the limitations extra out, as a result of in the intervening time, it appears like as quickly as you crash, you hit the barrier, you bounce again onto the observe fairly simply. In fact with that situation, the place there’s virtually no visibility, numerous water, that’s after all a giant situation. Within the dry, usually, it’s kind of higher. You see, after all, extra of what’s going on in entrance of you.
“I believe already the adjustments they made in Spa, they undoubtedly opened it up much more, however it would all the time be a harmful nook, however we’re going to numerous tracks the place there are harmful corners, the place up till most likely there’s an accident, you will not say something.
“Now after all it will get introduced up, however I really feel it’s kind of unfair to simply blame it on the observe, as a result of I believe within the first place you need to look into why did they restart.
“It is a large championship, numerous automobiles. They’re up and coming abilities, they most likely danger a bit extra, as a result of they need to present each race that they’re the very best driver on the market. And with that visibility, it was simply unattainable to see something, and I do know, after all, out of your thoughts once you’re going there, you do not see something. You are like, properly, I suppose the man in entrance of me is flat so I am flat. I simply keep flat out.
“That is precisely most likely what occurred there. The drivers are simply staying flat as a result of they did not know there was a automobile within the wall after which one other automobile within the wall in a while. So yeah, there are numerous issues which have to return collectively, what we’ve to enhance.”
“I believe the very first thing to have a look at is when to start out a race and through which situations we’re glad to race and it is protected to race,” mentioned Charles Leclerc. “Second is visibility. I believe with our automobiles, with automobiles generally, motor sport now, the identical… System 4, 30 years in the past, the quantity of spray there was, I am fairly positive it was much less, as a result of the downforce now’s increasingly more and with the spray it is simply going a lot larger up. And the visibility is simply identified.
“As Max was explaining, you do not see, you’re simply hoping that the man in entrance is flat out and that there isn’t a automobiles in the course of the highway, however this isn’t sufficient.
“The very last thing I’d say is possibly to contemplate for these tracks with very, very excessive speeds, to have the partitions additional away from the observe, so after they lose the automobile, they do not bounce on the wall and are available again on the observe. And at the very least they most likely cease extra to the left or extra to the appropriate however at the very least they do not bounce again on the observe, which is one other drawback. So these three issues must be seemed into. It is clearly horrible what’s occurred, once more.”
“I believe there’s room to enhance the exit of Eau Rouge nonetheless,” mentioned Sergio Perez, “and hopefully we’re in a position to transfer the barrier again to ensure that there isn’t a automobile coming again into the observe.
“However to me, crucial one is unquestionably the observe situations, as a result of I believe typically race administrators are pushed by, most likely followers and social media, individuals sitting again at dwelling considering that the circuit appears high-quality to race however the visibility is simply crucial.
“It is not concerning the chief or the second place; it is concerning the tenth, fifteenth, twentieth,” he continued. “Principally, they want to have the ability to see.
“So I believe it is one thing that we actually must power different classes and in addition in System 1 to ensure that we’re in a position to race each time it is protected for everybody to see at the very least.
“Accidents can occur however you can not have conditions the place drivers are mainly blind and simply going flat out, as a result of it is when these large accidents can occur in any sequence.
“So if which means delaying the beginning and implies that we cannot have the beginning when the observe is de facto moist, then high-quality. We have to do what’s protected for all of the drivers.”
