W Series, what an accident at Eau Rouge: six cars involved, two drivers in hospital

L’Eau Rouge, a fascinating but also cursed curve. Fresh from the accident in the GT World Challenge at the 24 Hours of Spa a few weeks ago – where Williams’ reserve driver Jack Aitken and the Italian Davide Rigon were involved – in the qualifying of the W Series a another terrible crash involved six cars in the famous Belgian track compression: those of Sarah Moore, Abbie Eaton, Belen Garcia, Fabienne Wohlwend, Ayla Agren and Beitske Visser.

The dynamics of the accident, two pilots in the hospital

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As the images show, Sarah Moore was the first to hit the barriers, followed by her rivals. Immediately after, Abbie Eaton’s car ended up in the air due to the contact with Beitske Visser and only for a few centimeters it did not end with the front left tire against the helmet of the British driver of Scuderia W. This then the note appeared on the social profiles W Series: “All the pilots involved in the accident are undergoing medical evaluation and two of them, Ayla Agren and Beitske Visser – it is written – have been transferred to the hospital for further checks”. After 30 minutes of rest, qualifying then resumed regularly with Jamie Chadwick’s third pole of the season.

Hamilton and Zhou’s alarm

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In recent weeks, the area of ​​Spa-Francorchamps has been affected by heavy rainfall that had led to the flooding of the section of the circuit that precedes the Eau Rouge. And a few minutes before the W Series crash, Lewis Hamilton had sounded the alarm in a post-free statement: “ I don’t know if they have a new asphalt there – commented the Mercedes driver – but there is a huge bump right at the point of compression that we’ve never had before. It’s really clear, you can feel it on the rear. I think it’s something to do with landslides, rain or something. ” F.2 driver Guanyu Zhou also joins the chorus: “Every race weekend we see a big crash at the same corner – wrote the Chinese Academy Alpine -, we can’t just ignore all this and move on” .