A safety expert has told the Melbourne inquest into the death of track marshal Graham Beveridge, at this year’s Australian GP, that he feels track catch fencing was not high enough. "I don't think the fence is high enough,” claimed engineer Mark Dohrmann. “It's possible for accidents to occur which cause bits of cars to fly off and get over that fence quite easily and travel a long way." 
 
Dohrmann suggested the height of the fence should be doubled, even though Beveridge’s death was caused by a tyre passing through a hole in the catch fencing, designed to allow drivers to climb through to get off the track in the event of an accident. However, a sector marshal in charge of that section of the circuit has told the inquest that Beveridge's death was a "freak accident" and that he would stand somebody in the same place again.   "I only considered (the access gap) to be a risk for injury and not death, because I didn't think anything large enough to kill you would come through," he told the Melbourne newspaper, The Age.