Formula Regional European driver Dilano van’t Hoff has died as a result of a crash during a wet race at Spa-Francorchamps.
I’m not sure if I should post the video, but having watched it, it’s extremely similar to the crash that killed Anthoine Hubert. Looks further along the track, but very similar.
Accident description
It’s not clear how, but his car spins into the middle of the track, stops fully sideways/perpendicular to the track, then is T-boned by another car.
Absolutely tragic.
Yet people will still moan about red flags when the rain is so heavy you can’t see car ahead…
I’m not going to encourage it, but if you do, please mark it NSFW.
I am a little confused. We had spa on the calender for many years without deadly shunts. But now in a span of few years, we have lost 2 young people to the track(eau rouge-raidillon complex). Those corners have not changed massively and the cars are lot safer than before. Was it the case that the corners are inherently dangerous and blind luck was the reason that we had no major accidents there or have the cars changed and made it dangerous now. Either way the corner profile has to change. As legendary as the corners are, they are not worth the cost of human life
This even comes after the track changed the run off on the corner to allow more space to be off the track during an incident. It’s an inherently dangerous corner. As sad as it is to lose such an iconic corner, I think you’re right. It probably needs to be re-profiled to make it safer in the rain.
Bad weather and poor visibility. Perhaps driving to fast. Those corners are something special but with bad weather… accidents happen, but when you don’t have clear visibility things can get worse very very fast. When such cars begin to slide you are just a passenger. Perhaps the new proposal to guide the water more down will help visibility.
