Sport 11-09-2000 F1: Crash Kills Italian Marshall who: Michael Schumacher what: Grand Prix win overshadowed by death of marshall where: Monza, Italy when: Yesterday snippet: "The future of Formula One in Italy could be thrown into doubt by the death of a fire marshall in the country`s Grand Prix" says the BBC. "The incident has the potential to revive a problem that has haunted F1 since the death of Ayrton Senna, also in a Grand Prix in Italy, in 1994." 30 year-old fire marshall Paolo Ghislimberti died from severe head and chest injuries after he was hit by a wheel as the result of a six-car wreck during the first lap of the Italian Grand Prix in Monza yesterday. The crash happened on the second chicane when Jordan-Mugen team-mates Heinz-Harald Frentzen and Jarno Trulli both collided with Rubens Barrichello and David Coulthard. Then, "blinded by smoke and dust," says Kevin Easton in The Times, "Pedro de la Rosa rammed his Orange Arrows into the rear of Johnny Herbert`s Jaguar and was catapulted 20 feet into the air, his car rolling four times before flying inches over David Coulthard`s head". "The death of the marshall is a really big issue," said David Coulthard yesterday, who calls for Monza to be left out of the Formula One calendar in today`s Express Sport Live. "I think the race should have been stopped - not continued while [the marshall] lay at the side of the track receiving emergency medical treatment." Michael Schumacher went on to win the event and broke down in tears afterwards as he recalled the death of his idol Ayrton Senna six years ago. [... more]

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