Tragedy is imminent: Ocon will take some photographers to Baku

What happened at the end of F1 Baku GP 2023 this Sunday will never happen again. In the pit lane, in the final moments of the race, there was a very dangerous moment. A group of photographers crowded the street entrance of the garages waiting for the three members of the podium to take their pictures and make sure they were in a good position when Perez, Verstappen and Leclerc They will arrive at the closed park. But they did it as the race went on. It was unlikely that anyone would pit at that moment, but they did. Esteban Oconwho was terrified to see so many photographers in front of him.

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Esteban had to brake and some photographers were seen to run away quickly when they saw the blue car approaching the entrance of the pit. Fortunately, they got out in time and no one was hurt, but they were all in great danger.

Therefore, the FIA announced through an official note that it has opened an investigation into what happened so that a procedural failure of this magnitude does not happen again.

“The FIA ​​representatives responsible for the parc fermé area at the pit entrance must report to the stewards at 5:30 pm”the FIA ​​commented in its note.

For his part, Ocon criticized the fact that the podium celebration was being prepared while the race was still underway.

“I don’t understand why they start preparing the podium and the ceremony when we are still racing, there is one lap left and there are still people who didn’t pit, I got to 300 km/h, I brake very late and I saw the obstacles and the people around. Crazy, a big disaster could happen. This is something that needs discussion, because we don’t want to see things like that.”commented the French, angry at what had happened.