He Emilia-Romaña Grand Prix left a classification day loaded with tension after accidents Franco Colapint and Yuki Tsunoda with chilling coincidences with one of the most tragic weekends in the history of the Formula 1.
More than 30 years of the fateful San Marino Grand Prix of 1994, when the Austrian Roland Ratzenberger and the Brazilian Ayrton Senna They died in the Icola circuit, this Saturday two pilots suffered two accidents in the same sector that was marked on fire in the memory of world motoring: The Japanese of Red Bull in Villeneuve and Alpine’s Argentine in Tamburello.
First of all, The qualifying session was arrested abruptly in Q1 by a red flag after the brutal tsunoda accidentwho lost control of his car in the Villeneuve curve, just where Ratzenberger crashed fatally during the Quealy on Saturday, April 30, 1994.
Tsunoda He was clueless at high speed, hit the protections and the car overturned violently until taking a turn. Fortunately, the Red Bull driver left unharmed, greeting the public while walking through his own means towards the medical center.
Minutes later, when the session resumed, Colapinto was the protagonist of another shocking accident. In his qualifying debut as Alpine titular pilot, he lost control of the car in The Chicana prior to Tamburello, the curve where Senna found death on May 1, 1994.
The A525 of the Pilarense was shattered against the defenses. While the young pilot came out without physical injuries, the shock was total: the place, the context, the story. Everything took back to that tragedy that changed forever to formula 1.
Beyond the scare, Colapint had managed to advance to Q2but he couldn’t continue. His image coming out of the unharmed car was a relief, but also a reminder of how finite this sport is still, even in a safer era.
For him, a confessed admirer of Senna – who was physically compared and in gestures – the moment was not only sports, but emotional. “It is a pride that compare me with Ayrton,” he said once. This Saturday, that admiration was dyed with deep restlessness and respect.
Source: Ambito
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