"It's tempting to turn it on tomorrow, but not activate it," Adrian Smiseth Sejersted says irritably to Norwegian Viaplay about Saturday's downhill race.
I'm getting a race ruined here.
The day after Norwegian Fredrik Møller crashed, but escaped with only two knocked out teeth and some bruising thanks to the airbag deploying as it should, compatriot Sejerstedt was not as cheerful. After a small jump in the super-G race in Val Gardena, the airbag deployed and he didn't have time to take the next turn.
"I assumed it would happen at some point. It almost seems like an impossible technology. In the best case scenario, it should trigger before an accident happens, but I don't see how it would be possible to make it work perfectly," says Sejerstedt.
Airbags became mandatory in the alpine speed events last season.
Czech Jan Zabystran unexpectedly won ahead of Swiss alpine giant Marco Odermatt and Italian Giovanni Franzoni.
Swede Felix Monsén drove out.
