In a warm summer afternoon a truck smashed through a highway’s median guard rail and disastrously collided with the oncoming vehicles on the opposite roadway. As result, seven people died charred: Both trucks’ drivers, two people in the 1st car (a mercedes) and three people in the 2nd car, a BMW 530 tailgating the 1st car. The occupants of the yellow van were not injured and a few seconds later they got out of their van. The BMW’s tail was still looking good for spare parts! Not the same for …
this evening confirmed that Surtees had died from his injuries. Surtees graduated to F2 this season from Formula Renault and had taken his first podium finish in the series with third place in Saturday’s race at Brands Hatch. His step up to the category came after several seasons in karts, which included victory in the Junior Gearbox Championship in 2005, before a graduation to car racing in the Ginetta Junior Championship in 2006. He switched to single seaters in 2007, taking a race …