Numerous personalities but also organizations in the field of motorsport, and even beyond, have paid tribute in recent hours to the automobile driver Anthoine Hubert. The 22-year-old Frenchman died in a terrible accident Saturday afternoon during a Formula 2 race at the Spa-Francorchamps circuit in Belgium.
Dead in the race: painful precedents
Fatal accidents have become rare in motor racing due to advances in the strength of materials used in car construction and circuit layout.
Another French driver, Jules Bianchi, died of his injuries several months after an accident at Japan's F1 GP in 2014 when his car collided with a tow truck that was removing another damaged car.
The dramatic Imola weekend 1994
Previously, the Brazilian Ayrton Senna had died in 1994 at the Italian GP in Imola, the same weekend and on the same circuit as another F1 driver, the Austrian Roland Ratzenberger.
Fatal accidents have also occurred in recent years in Indycar, a single-seater racing formula that is partly competing on very fast oval circuits.
During the crash on Saturday, Hubert's car disintegrated under the violence of shock. Cut in half after entering a security fence, her tracks continued to spin on the track in the middle of a shower of debris.
Spa circuit: some of the most dangerous curves in the world
The television broadcast of the scene of the accident was then interrupted while a heavy silence fell on the Ardennes circuit. This is one of the last big circuits called "natural" with a track with steep gradients and drawn in the middle of the forest.
The parts called "L'Eau Rouge" followed by "Raidillon" are considered as part of the most spectacular, and dangerous, motorsport.
The German pilot Stefan Bellof was killed in an accident exactly 19 years ago at the Eau Rouge during a sport-prototype race at the wheel of a Porsche.
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