Fatal accident in Spa: Justice investigates

“We will work closely with the Belgian Automobile Club and the local authorities,” announced Formula 1 race director Michael Masi. Masi was unable to say how long it would take for the FIA to come to terms with the tragedy: “There are a lot of facets to take into account.”

The public prosecutor's office in Verviers also announced an investigation into unknown persons for negligent homicide; this is a normal procedure in the event of a death with a subsequent police report. “At the moment there is nothing to indicate that there was negligence,” but an objective analysis is necessary, the public prosecutor’s office told the AFP news agency.

Masi did not want to speculate on whether there would be changes to the FIA's safety concept after the death of the young Frenchman, who died after the accident on the racetrack on Saturday. “Safety is constantly being improved anyway, it is an ongoing process,” said the successor to Charlie Whiting, who died in March: “We have to wait and see what conclusions emerge from the accident in Spa, then we can discuss further measures.”

However, Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff does not believe that every risk can be eliminated with further measures to improve safety. “Perhaps we have forgotten how dangerous this sport is because we were spared serious accidents for a long time,” said Wolff on Sunday in Spa: “This is and remains a sport for gladiators, it’s about courage and skill and also a certain willingness to take risks.”

Of course it is “horrible when a young man loses his life in a racing car. We have lost a great young racing driver,” said Wolff. And for that reason alone, you can't just go back to the agenda, but you have to think about it: "Of course also about the issue of safety." The Formula 2 accident was a "freak accident", "that can happen again and again in a sport, in which anything can happen anyway.”

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Fatal accident in Spa: Justice investigates

The world automobile association FIA and the Belgian judiciary have initiated investigations after the fatal accident of the French Formula 2 driver Anthoine Hubert in Spa.

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