Accidents Aplenty At Interlagos
Formula One's new safety measures were severely tested in Brazil, as a
large number of accidents littered the weekend.
Frenchman Olivier Panis suffered the biggest of these during Sunday
morning's warm-up session, but the Prost driver was able to walk away from
a 130mph double impact similar to that in which he broke both legs last
year.
Although Interlagos is known to be a dusty circuit, David Coulthard and
reigning world champion Jacques Villeneuve - who both suffered incidents
Formula One's new safety measures were severely tested in Brazil, as a
large number of accidents littered the weekend.
Frenchman Olivier Panis suffered the biggest of these during Sunday
morning's warm-up session, but the Prost driver was able to walk away from
a 130mph double impact similar to that in which he broke both legs last
year.
Although Interlagos is known to be a dusty circuit, David Coulthard and
reigning world champion Jacques Villeneuve - who both suffered incidents
over the weekend - attributed the situation to the new tyre and chassis
regulations introduced for 1998.
