The farce IMO is that the sessions were suspended on the grounds of the medical helicopter not being able to land at the designated hospital, all while the media helicopter was happily circling the track from overhead and broadcasting live pictures during the entire session.bblundell72 wrote: ↑07 Apr 2017, 18:06I am disappointed of the suspension of FP1 and FP2 like everyone, but I understand the safety concerns and I also can be a realist in expectations of the FIA.
As a spectator, buying expensive tickets and taking part in what is most likely the one unique event of the year, I think I'd be quite frustrated too. The problem here isn't the FIA directive that enforces a venue to take pre defined required measures on the grounds of safety (e.g. that an adequate hospital can be reached within 20 minutes), but that the venue itself didn't take these precautions. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that it probably happens quite often that the (medical) helicopter can't be used to land at the local hospital due to weather, fog or smog, in which case, people will just use the next best thing on the occasion when an accident happens. When there is an event of the scope and prestige and magnitude of F1 being held in your city however, I would expect at least a backup plan of some sort (e.g. be prepared to divert traffic to enable to take an ambulance to the nearest hospital) to go forward.
As I said, if the weather is simply horrific like in Malaysia a couple of years ago, that is another topic and the consequences pretty much unavoidable then... but this isn't the case here, is it?
