FIA confirms that it made the call for the fire truck in Korean Grand Prix

Fire truck carrying Mark Webber’s car

The FIA has confirmed that they made the call for the fire truck after Mark Webber’s car caught fire as a result of a collision with Adrian Sutil. However, the governing body added that they were not expecting the truck to go out on the track ahead of the race leaders before the safety car could slow down the cars.

Formula One race director Charlie Whiting was forced to call out the fire truck after seeing the scale of the fire. The Governing body also said that they will await a report from the reace organisers about the safety response to review the matter.

“It wasn’t quite clear that it was the safety car but then the safety car board was flashing and I lifted… and obviously saw that there was another car on the track,” said Sebastian Vettel, who won the race.

Red Bull chief Christian Horner said that the incident could have been much worse if the truck was hidden in the corner rather than being on a long straight.

“It wasn’t great, but thankfully it happened on part of the track where there was plenty of time for the drivers to react. Sebastian was the first to come across it, but with the straight being so long there he thankfully had enough pre-warning to know that he was there. But if it had been unsighted it would have been a bit more dramatic,” he said.