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The Formula 1 2014 Season |OT2| Louder Than Formula E
- Thread starter Addnan
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Business
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Thought of that accident too while hoping for a best case scenario.
Still, there is possibility that he collided to tractor/barrier with his helmet/side of the car....
ZanzibarBreeze
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Sky still analyzing, but nothing new.
Myoclonic Jerk
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What accident? I can't remember
ok saw this pic on reddit.. it looks like the top of the car is pretty badly damged.. talking about the roll bar.
http://i.imgur.com/QQAKZlS.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/QQAKZlS.jpg
i hope the marshalls did this to cut him out ... it looks like a clean cut
I do not like the look of that at all.
I can picture in my mind how such damage would occur and it's not good
Cyborgmatt
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This is an inherent design issue with the current Formula 1 car, really. They can take so much abuse and have the driver get up and walk, but a horizontal impact at about half a meter's height from the front or side? There's no protection there at all.
I don't know if we're going to see some kind of safety mandate like a cage or a closed cockpit, but this is the second time we see this happen to a current F1 car. Even if this is a one in a million chance.
Hydroplaned going around the corner they wrecked on. Sutil spun and hit the wall. Bianchi had that, but sadly had even more stuff in his way to wreck into.
News is news is news, even when the person being covered might be seriously injured or worse.
ZanzibarBreeze
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Sky wrapping up now. No real news from Ted, but Marussia team principle (and other staff) along with Bianchi's manager and representatives from Ferrari are at the hospital.
Suddenly realized that Sochi is a week away -- seems very soon now.
Suddenly realized that Sochi is a week away -- seems very soon now.
frontieruk
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Why did Ferrari have representatives at the hospital with Bianchi? Just because they provide the engine?
He's part of their driver program.
Shanks D Zoro
Banned
Shit, I hope he is alright. I missed this race and just saw the headlines. What exactly happened?
gingerlord
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I believe it's designed so the driver can be lifted out strapped into his seat so this sort of clean cuts looks like them cutting him out rather than accident damage.
Horrible still.
Dutch Gronk
Banned
He's part of the Ferrari driver programme.
ConstructMe
Banned
link to getty pics??
Honey Bunny
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This guy is uploading post race interviews https://www.youtube.com/user/nhlsarok/videos
Jenson seems pretty shaken.
Jenson seems pretty shaken.
http://www.gettyimages.nl/Search/Search.aspx?EventId=508022651&EditorialProduct=Sport
Not nice. (But Jules isn't really visible)
Google "getty images formula 1". First link.
Concensus seems to be that he lost control and went sideways into the vehicle that was being used to remove Sutil's car from the track following an earlier accident in the same place.
Sutil aquaplaned off the circuit, a JCB tractor came to recover his car. Sutil got out and was fine, on the next lap Bianchi did the same thing and it seems he hit the tractor.
Shanks D Zoro
Banned
Shit, the first image I saw made it look like his car had been run over and crushed by the vehicle. I hope he pulls through.
zomgbbqftw
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Horrible. Hopefully Bianchi pulls through.
You can't see the roll bar in those pictures, the red thing at the back is not it.
aspiegamer
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Here's the part of the track in question. I'd venture that he (and Sutil, for that matter) clipped the grass at around that mark and it's straight on from there. You can imagine how if a truck was angled in just the wrong way (up-down?) it would create a large wall that could be hit from quite a spread. It would have accidentally acted like a collection point for that segment of barrier.
A few people a year always seem to go off there. It's probably the tiny bit of extra pavement from the secondary track that drivers wander out on to. An early apex in turn 7 can force you outside around there. I've crashed in this exactly spot in any number of video games countless times. They should... probably pave in some of that one gravel trap a la the wide edit at 130R (immediately across the barriers from the crash site, btw).
And I'm sorry that I'm horrible with mspaint.
Dutch Gronk
Banned
Looks like an even more severe version of the De Villota crash. The roll bar is just gone...
Feel sick to my stomach right now
Feel sick to my stomach right now
Wouldn't asphalt have been even worse in the rain though?
As that section was under double yellows at the time I think it's more likely an aquaplaning incident. It wouldn't make sense for him to be pushing track limits. That said, it does seem to be a problem corner whatever happened
When it looks clear that no one wants to actually talk about the race or their own achievements today, the media should just let it be. It's pretty unfortunate to see the drivers force themselves to give professional answers about stuff they don't care to be talking about. Just awful.
Myoclonic Jerk
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not necessarily the case. Usually no news means bad news.. but I hope you're right..