‘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 photographers and personnel in the pitlane when he came in to compl꧃ete his mandatory pit stop on the final lap.&nb𒀰sp;
The Frenchman had com꧙pleted the entire race on the hard tyre and was coming in to change his tyres when photographers and TV crews were let in to the pitlane.
Ocon dived in to the piไt lane and several people had to jump out of the way to avoid being hit.
Sk♛y pitlane reporter Kravitz described the incident as a "shambles"
“The aftermath of the podium scene, it could 🔯have ꧃been a very different scene, indeed, Kravitz observed.
“We normally get to the end ꦺof the race, the point where ever🦩ybody knows that everybody has made their pitstops.
"There will probably not be more pitstops. But that doesn’t meaꦅn that there won’t be.
“The parc ferme barriers come out.
“The people, the FIA photographers, are released by the FIA and the l🌜ocal marshalls either 📖through an access gate so people can get into position.
“There is also a photographers’ tower. They 🦄request time to get into there, t♚o get celebration shots of the podium.
“That’s what normally happens.
“What was unusual abou♐t 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 sꦡecurity guards that there were still two pitstops to be made before the chequered fl𝄹ag.
“There is another gap - for the team gu🧸ests,” Kravitz continued. “The team guests g༒arage is between Alpine and McLaren’s.
“We were all aware - not lea🏅st because I reminded the security guards that there were two pitstops still 𒆙to be made, Hulkenberg and Russell, then Ocon.
“It wasn’t ﷺteam guests [amid the chaos]. It was official FIA photographers.
“That’s why the person in charge of this parc ferme arrangement has 🐻been summoned to see the Stewards.
"It is effectively the FIA investigating themselves. The officials made a 🍃mistake.
“The lesson does need to be lea✤rned when they can let people in, for pure safety’sꦰ sake.
“F1 had a lucky escape today.”
The incident is currently being investigated, with the Baku stewards summoning “FIA re𒆙pꦅresentatives”.

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