“I think Eau Rouge at Spa needs looking into because we’ve lost two drivers in the space of four years. It’s a really dangerous corner, and we say it every year. It’s not fair what happened when it is the same corner,” said Stroll.
When asked if he felt drivers were listened to enough on safety, particularly at track like Spa, the Aston Martin driver said not.
“I think that corner has to change,” he argued. “I think it’s way too dangerous. It’s an accident waiting to happen. And today, it happened again, and we lost a young kid.
“I just wanted to say that out loud, because that’s been in the back of my mind today. It’s a tragic day for motor sport, we lost a driver. I just want everyone to think about that. My thoughts are with him. It breaks my heart what happened.”
Stroll’s Aston Martin team-mate Fernando Alonso he thought the problem lay not so much in Spa’s layout, as the conditions in which race there are sometimes run.
“I think the visibility in wet conditions is just incredible in single-seaters these days,” he said.
Formula Regional Europe race in which van ‘t Hoff was killed was run in heavy rain with extremely poor visibility
Formula Regional
“When we see all these red flags, all these delays, and people at home don’t understand really why we do that – it’s not because of grip or [that] we cannot control the car. Of course we can, but we cannot see anything.
“So if there is a car in the middle of the street or whatever, that’s the real danger.
“I don’t know if Spa is the problem because I guess in Monza, it will be the same thing. If you find one car in the middle of the street in Monza, you will not be able to see it – and that’s the real problem.”