Gasley: “At the Japanese Grand Prix, I was two meters from death”

Down-the-line.com / Formula 1. French driver “Alpha Tauri” Pierre Gasly has commented on the incident that happened to him at the Japanese Grand Prix. Gasly almost hit a tractor, which was put on the track after the accident of Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc. At the same time, Gasly was not warned of the suspension of the race, he went to a speed of 250 km/h.

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Extinguished after the race, he recalled how Frenchman Jules Bianchi died in Japan after a collision with a tractor in 2014.

“The visibility was very poor. Carlos lost control of the car. After that I didn’t even see anything, I didn’t see where I was going. We lost Jules eight years ago in similar circumstances when there was a tractor there. I don’t understand why we ended up in the same condition eight years later, and this time the tractor was on the track, not in the gravel.

If I lost control of the car, like Carlos did, what would happen? I was driving at a speed of 200 km/h, but even though the speed was 100 km/h, there was still a 12 ton tractor. If I had hit him, I would have already died. I’m grateful to still be alive. Today I was two meters from death. It’s unacceptable for the driver,” Crash said.