Rain hit Japanese Grand Prix race start made couple of serious incidents in the Suzuka International circuit. Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz lost the control as the car hardly hit into the wall. Williams ace Alex Albon is out too following the power unit issue.

Following the accident, race was red flagged. During the red flag condition Pierre Gasly running at the back of the field, passed a recovery tractor on track during the Safety Car. After Jules Bianchi’s death following a crash at Suzuka in similar conditions, Gasly was understandably furious.

“What is this tractor on track?” Gasly said on team radio. “I passed next to it. This is unacceptable. Remember what happened. Can’t believe this!”

Here is the footage of the moment Gasly goes past the tractor. He has every right to be mad. We all agree with him. This is unacceptable. Lucky no one got hurt or anything. #F1 #JapaneseGP pic.twitter.com/B4ApeBCpEM

— Mohsin (@MB07__) October 9, 2022

This must NOT happen guys – Wurz

“I think we need to discuss a tractor on track….. we can keep it short: this must NOT happen guys`.” Alex Wurz, Grand Prix Drivers’ Association chief says

I still don’t know why we keep risking – Sainz

“Even behind a Safety Car we are going at 100 or 150kph and still at those speeds we don’t see nothing. Sainz said.

“If one driver decides to get a bit out of the racing line or has a small aquaplaning or has to change a switch on the steering wheel and gets a bit out of line and hits a tractor, it’s over.

“I still don’t know why we keep risking, in these conditions, having a tractor on track. You were going to red flag it anyway, so why risk it?”

“To be honest, I’m not too worried. I’m obviously disappointed for crashing the car and for the team, but at the same time the conditions were pretty much impossible with visibility.

“On intermediates the aquaplaning was crazy. I tried to get out of Checo’s slipstream to see something, but as soon as I got out of the slipstream I had more water in the tyres and went into aquaplaning which sent me into a spin. Then you are down to luck because you know everyone behind you can’t see where you are and you are in the middle of the track, praying for anyone not to hit you.

“Maybe the best [option] would have been a rolling start in extremes. Everyone complains that F1 doesn’t race in the wet, but when you see that situation, basically we are driving without visibility. How can you drive a Formula 1 car at 300kph without visibility?”

Albon: I don’t know why the race started

“The side of the car got hit. It was one of those things, I don’t really understand why we went racing to begin with,” Albon told Sky Sports F1.

“We could only see me maybe 10 metres in front of us at the very most. The cars at the back, we were kind of doing pin-ball just because we couldn’t see the track edge, so we were just going left to right down the straight not really knowing where the track was. That was what happened to me, I couldn’t see where I was on track and I touched with another car, which of course I didn’t see.

“It’s a tricky one. We don’t want Spa to happen again but at the same time, conditions like this are genuinely dangerous. Even that car with Carlos in the middle of the track, I’m really surprised no one went into it flat out.”

We are not laying 100% of the blame on Gasly – Sky Sports F1’s Karun Chandhok says

“We are not laying 100% of the blame on Gasly,” he says. “My view on it is that they would have seen Gasly still on track and the recovery vehicle is within the white line. So perhaps they could have kept it in a safer position before bringing it on.

“There’s things that Gasly could and should have done – go slower at a pace you’re prepared to stop – but equally at race control they could have done more to get it out of the way.”

Totally unacceptable – Horner

“Totally unacceptable,” says Red Bull boss Christian Horner about the recovery vehicle on track.

“We lost Jules Bianchi here eight years ago, and that should never ever happen. There needs to be a full investigation into why there was a recovery vehicle on the circuit. Checo reported it to us and of course in those horrendous conditions when visibility is zero, it’s extremely dangerous.

“The Virtual Safety Car was brought in for a reason following that awful accident all those years ago. There needs to be a full, full investigation into why that vehicle was on track because it obviously shouldn’t have been there.”

Recovery truck incident absolutely must not happen – Seidl

“It’s clear that what happened there absolutely must not happen, no doubt,” McLaren team principal Andreas Seidl said.

“But at the same time, that’s for me a discussion that we have behind closed doors with the FIA and the race directors, because that’s the right way to work together in a constructive way, that’s why I want to keep it like that.”