Yeah, they are going to have to make a tough choice and move a lot of material to have the road further back. I know they don’t like to disturb anything but I don’t see how they can’t in this case. I don’t see it being open for at least a year, possibly longer.
Good thing he didn't crash, between the grim reaper microphone holder waiting to be driven into his chest and tear off his shoulders and the rear-mounted camera waiting to hit him like a cannonball in the back of the head, it would not have been pretty.
Mike Hawthorn probably did not care too much about risk as he had a disease that doctors told him would kill him in a few years. They were wrong, he was killed in a road car accident just after winning the world championship in 1958.