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Aitken suggests minor change to Raidillon to improve safety

Jack Aitken believes that pushing back the outside wall at Spa-Francorchamp's Raidillon corner would go a long way towards improving safety at the daunting uphill sweep. The Williams reserve driver suffered fractures to his collarbone and a vertabra in a crash sustained during the recent Spa 24 Hours race. Aitken spun his Lamborghini on the run up the hill, hit the barrier on the right and bounced back into the middle of the track where he was hit by another car. The accident was reminiscent of the tragic sequence of events that took place in 2019 during the Belgian Grand Prix weekend that claimed the life of F2 driver Anthoine Hubert. Spa is currently in the process of undertaking changes...
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