Pierre Gasly finished third in the Saturday Sprint at the Belgian Grand Prix but the Alpine driver said he had been unable to see much in the spray and had not felt safe.
Racing at speed in wet conditions and limited visibility is a major current safety concern in Formula One after the deaths of two junior drivers in the space of four years at Spa-Francorchamps.
"If Oscar or Max was in the middle of the straight, I would have been straight inside him. I just couldn't even see 10, 20 metres ahead of me.The field did five laps behind the safety car to displace standing water before a rolling start. The safety car was deployed again on lap three when Aston Martin's Fernando Alonso crashed."At the moment it’s so huge out of these cars, the water just stays in the air," he added.
"Also today, for example, I couldn't even see the Safety Car sometimes and I'm the first guy," he added."You can absolutely understand that everyone needs to play it safe here in Spa, we had two terrible accidents and the last one under similar conditions in the rain where drivers couldn't see because of the spray," he said.
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