The Murka Of French Racer Pierre Gasly At The Japanese Grand Prix When Trackers Crossed In The Track: I Can Die, Too Much!

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JAKARTA - French racer Pierre Gasly was furious after the tractor crossed the Sukera circuit at the Japanese Grand Prix, Sunday, October 9. This circuit is also the location of Jules Bianchi's death due to a fatal accident several years ago. Gasly was furious that he could have been killed by hitting a heavy vehicle that was lowered to the track to evacuate the Ferrari Charles Leclerc which hit the guardrail during the opening lap when it was raining. The red flag was raised on the third lap and the race had to restart an hour later even though it was raining still. Bianchi had a fatal accident in Suzuka in October 2014 when he hit a crane tractor that was evacuating another driver's car. The French driver underwent surgery and was in a coma, but couldn't recover and died in July 2015. Japan's Gasly start GP from the pit lane and enter the track at the back with a bad visibility due to the burst of water from the riders up front. Sainz twisted at bend 12 and hit the fence. As a result, Gasly crashed into a broken ad board stuck in front of his car, blocking his forward glance. "I could have been killed," said the AlphaTauri rider on radio. "This is outrageous, what happened? I can't believe this," he was quoted as saying by AFP via Antara. Gasly couldn't see where he was going and had to go back to the garage. "We lost Jules eight years ago in a similar condition, with a crane on the track at the grapple," Gasly said after the race. "I don't understand how eight years later, under similar conditions, we watched the crane again. Not only on the grevel but on the race track! McLaren's Lando Norris via Twitter highlighted the incident and remembered it with Bianchi. "How did that happen?" Norris tweeted. "We lost our lives in the same situation a few years ago. We put our lives at risk, especially in conditions like this." The FIA said it would investigate the incident after the race. Gasly is also under investigation for allegedly violating the speed limit when the red flag flies, because it has to return to the pits to get rid of the billboards attached to his car's nose before returning to the track and spurring his car so it doesn't fall behind the group being hosted by the Safety Car, according to AFP. Red Bull team boss Christian Horner said the incident was unacceptable. "We lost Jules Bianchi here eight years ago and that should never have happened," Horner said. "There has to be a thorough investigation into why there were evacuation vehicles on the circuit." Red Bull's Max Verstappen won the Japanese GP and locked down the world title after Charles Leclerc was awarded a five-second penalty for taking advantage by getting off track as he widened in the last chicane of the closing lap. Leclerc went down to P3 and Sergio Perez went up one position helping Red Bull secure his 1-2 finish at SUzuka.