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Swiss company proposes to airlift crashed F1 cars
The Swiss helicopter company Air Zermatt has proposed to remove stranded Formula One cars from the race track by airlifting them away to a safer place, avoiding the presence of recovery vehicles on the circuit.
What may seem to be a strange idea might be effective. The particular idea had already been tested in 2005. At the time, a helicopter was used during the A1GP race of Dubai. Air Zermatt's recent proposal was triggered by Jules Bianchi's crash into a recovery vehicle at the most recent Japanese Grand Prix. It argues that such accidents can easily be avoided if cars are airlifted away. 'The accident would not have occurred if we had worked our way. That would simply not have been a...
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