‘F1 had a lucky escape’ with Azerbaijan GP pit lane ‘shambles’, says Ted Kravitz
Alpine’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Esteban Ocon narrowly avoided hitting p♒hotographers and personnel in the pitlane when he came in to ⛦complete his mandatory pit stop on the final lap.
The Frenchman had completed the entire race on the hard tyre and was coming in to change his tyres when photographers an😼d TV crews were let in to the pitlane.
Oco♒n dived in to the pit lane and several people had to 🧸jump out of the way to avoid being hit.
Sky pitlane reporter Kravitz described the i♏ncident as a "shambles"
“𒁏The aftermath of the podium scene, it could have been a🌺 very different scene, indeed, Kravitz observed.
“We nor🌺mally get to the end of the race, the point where everybody knows that everybody has made their pitstops.
"There will probably not be more pitstops. But that does🍸n’t mean that there won’t be.
“The parc ferme barriers come out.
“The people, the FIA p🌊hotographers, are released by the FIA and the local marshalls either through an access gate so people can get into position.
“There is also a p𒊎hotographers’ tower. They request time to get into there, to 🎉get celebration shots of the podium.
“That’s what normally happens.
“What൩ was unusual about today is that absolutely everybody who was paying attention to the race knew that there was going to be ༺guaranteed one last pitstop for Ocon.
“We all knew there was going to be.”
Kravitz revealed he had reminded security guards that there 🍸were still two pitstops to be made before the chequered flag.
“There is another gap - for the team guests,” Kravitz co☂ntinued. “The team guests garage is between Alpine and McLaren’s💞.
“We were all aware - not least because I reminded the security guards that there were two pitstops still to 💧be made, Hulkenberg and Russell, then Ocon.
“It wasn’t team guests [amid the chaos]. It wa🧸s official FIA photogra🌄phers.
“That’s why the person in charge of this parc ferme arrangement h🐼as been summoned to see the Stewar💞ds.
"It is effectively the FIA investigating𝓡 t♔hemselves. The officials made a mistake.
“The less𓃲on does need to be learned when they can let people in, for pure safety’s sake.
“F1 had a lucky escape today.”
The incident is currently being investigated, with th🏅e Baku s✨tewards summoning “FIA representatives”.
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