Monday, December 6th, 2021
Bad F2 crash ends lightly
Fittipaldi camp breathes a sigh of relief after a horror accident
He races into the rear of a stationary racing car at high speed, he has to be freed from his Formula 2 car and flown to the hospital by helicopter. This suggests bad things for the health of Enzo Fittipaldi. But his brother gives the all-clear.
The crash at Formula 2 in Jeddah was severe, there were pictures that nobody wants to see. When Enzo Fittipaldi drove into the rear of Theo Pourchaire’s stern at high speed, one had to fear the worst. But his brother has meanwhile given the all-clear: “He has suffered a fracture in his right heel, but luckily he’s doing much better than we all expected,” tweeted Pietro Fittipaldi. Enzo is “awake” and resting in the King Fahad Armed Forces Hospital in Jeddah.
Pourchaire has already contacted us. He’s doing “overall well,” he wrote: “At the moment I don’t know if it’s the end of the season for me. That was a really big accident and Enzo is injured. I wish him the best possible recovery. “
Pourchaire had stopped on the track with his ART, several drivers were able to evade before the Brazilian, grandson of the former driver Emerson Fittipaldi, drove up. The race had been interrupted and both had to be freed from their cars. The Frenchman was taken away by ambulance, and Fittipaldi was even flown out by helicopter. The World Automobile Federation Fia had announced that both drivers were “conscious”.
The race in Saudi Arabia was interrupted immediately after the accident and resumed after around 40 minutes. The race was shortened by the race management in order to meet the Formula 1 schedule. The points were halved.
After another, albeit minor, accident, the race was stopped again after five laps and no longer started. Prema driver Oscar Piastri was rated as the winner, and the Australian will travel to the season finale next weekend with a comfortable lead in the championship. Piastri’s lead over his Russian team-mate Robert Schwartzman is 51.5 points, in Abu Dhabi a maximum of 65 points can be won. Piastri would succeed Mick Schumacher, who won the 2020 title.
The two German pilots David Beckmann and Lirim Zendeli are no longer present at the last two stations of the season. Both have lost their cockpits due to a lack of sponsor payments.