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‘We risk our lives in conditions like this…but this is UNACCEPTABLE’: Lando Norris leads F1 fury after Pierre Gasly passes a tractor at high speed in wet Japanese GP… as Sergio Perez says the sport ‘lost Jules Bianchi because of that mistake’
- AlphaTauri’s Pierre Gasly came perilously close to a collision with a tractor
- Lando Norris and Sergio Perez have both taken to Twitter to vent their outrage
- The vehicle’s presence evoked memories of Jules Bianchi’s fatal crash in 2014
Lando Norris took to Twitter to vent his outrage after a tractor was left on track during the stop-start Japanese Grand Prix, with Pierre Gasly passing the vehicle at high speed in a dangerous wet Suzuka.
The McLaren driver was not alone either, with Red Bull’s Sergio Perez claiming that it was a similar ‘mistake’ that led to the untimely death of French driver Jules Bianchi in 2015.
The race was red-flagged almost immediately after lights out, but after a lengthy delay the time-limited race eventually resumed, with Max Verstappen leading the way in pursuit of his second world championship.
AlphaTauri driver Pierre Gasly came perilously close to a serious incident with a tractor
Live speed data showed Gasly doing 200 km/h as he approached the tractor in a moment that he hit out at race stewards as ‘unacceptable’ and claimed he ‘could have killed himself’
McLaren’s Norris took to social media, writing: ‘Wtf. How’s this happened!? We lost a life in this situation years ago.
‘We risk our lives, especially in conditions like this. We wanna race. But this… Unacceptable.’
And Red Bull’s Mexican driver Perez followed his rival by saying: ‘How can we make it clear that we never want to see a crane on track?
‘We lost…
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Source : dailymail
