28 March 2024
Brazil moves tractor after Bianchi crash
"The changes have improved the safety procedures"
Organisers of the Brazilian grand prix have tweaked safety measures in light of Jules Bianchi’s life-threatening Suzuka crash a month ago.
Globo reports that the tractor destined to be on duty in the famous ’Senna-S’ has been relocated.
"The Bianchi accident certainly made us think," said Luis Ernesto Morales, the chief engineer at Interlagos.
"One of the changes we have made was the adoption of a new post at the new run-off area at the Senna-S, so that there will not be a tractor entering there.
"Undoubtedly, the changes have improved the safety procedures," he added.
During the wet Brazilian grand prix in 2003, Michael Schumacher spun off and narrowly missed a tractor that was removing Juan Pablo Montoya’s stricken Williams.
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