Gary Anderson: “F1 must change the dangerous rules, there is a risk of death”

The alarm about overtaking in F1 In recent weeks our newspaper has also looked into many situations seen on the track in F1 that could be definitely improved, both for entertainment and for safety. First of all in qualifying, where it is counterproductive for the driver to go to the limit, but also in overtaking favored by superclipping and the charging difference between the cars. This last aspect can create situations of great danger, as reported by the protagonists themselves and as clearly seen in the accident between Franco Colapinto of Alpine and Oliver Bearman of Haas.
Formula 1 has a meeting scheduled in London on April 9th, in which the possibility of an immediate and future change to the current regulatory system will be assessed. Gary Anderson is afraid The words of the Northern Irish designer Gary Anderson – who has a long career behind him between McLaren, Ensign, Jordan, Stewart and Jaguar – to the English Telegraph express the paddock’s anxiety about the danger of certain situations.
Anderson explained: “F1 needs to change the dangerous rules, so there’s a risk of death. The FIA ​​needs to take some of the responsibility for the Bearman crash. It was an accident when you have a system that allows two cars at vastly different speeds to go around the same track. And I’m sure we’ll see it again. If it had happened while overtaking going into Turn 1, it would have been like a plane crash – potentially risking death.” The engineer then analyzed these rules as a whole: “A GP is no longer a physically exhausting race and this difference is noticeable on tracks like Suzuka, Spa and Silverstone. Seeing cars overtaking each other is fun, but they are not competitive overtaking: there is still a lot to do to make everything more like a race.” Jacques Villeneuve: “Danger that shouldn’t be there” On this type of accident risk, Jacques Villeneuve explained to Canal+: “In this race at Suzuka we saw the negative side of the regulations. The track didn’t lend itself to good overtaking and we saw the dangerous aspect with the Colapinto episode. He was going in slow motion and the difference in speed created a danger that shouldn’t be there.”