The collision is a testament to the ever improving safety measures that are designed with drivers in mind as both the Canadian and the German walked away from the crash site un-injured. Need for change Stewart, a regular campaigner for increased safety in the sport, equated the debris from a crash to small missiles. At 200 or 300 kph you don't know where debris is going to go and at that speed we're not talking about a car crash, more like a plane crash. There is no need to have a man with a flag out there - you can have a button to push with an arm that can come out with a flag on it. Meanwhile, Walker stoically defended the safety features of the sport and the circuit inparticular.
People are very passionate about motor racing and they know the risks.
We try to make the risks absolutely minimal. That's the way it is and at the moment there is nothing else we can do. For that wheel to have come through that small gap is quite an amazing phenomenon.