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Post by John on Oct 5, 2014 13:13:02 GMT
Not sure if that race should of ever taken place
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2014 13:32:44 GMT
I think they may have to change rules and have a safety car on before cranes or recovery vehicles cross the barriers. Always a safety revision after a serious incident. Fantastic drive by Hamilton and Button who's position is under threat. Rosberg looked rattled and not only because of the accident I think.
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Post by MartinT on Oct 5, 2014 16:38:20 GMT
Yes, I caught that (the Sutil remark), having had to watch the BBC broadcast this morning. I'll catch up with the Sky F1 broadcast this evening when I get home.
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Post by John on Oct 5, 2014 16:48:14 GMT
I think they should move the date as it is typhoon season in the pacific and happen nearly every day
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Post by MartinT on Oct 11, 2014 14:22:11 GMT
I just saw video footage of Bianchi's crash. Really not nice at all. Hard to believe anyone could survive that.
Watch with caution... Telegraph Link
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Post by Paul Barker on Oct 11, 2014 17:35:30 GMT
Shocking.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2014 19:03:56 GMT
Looking at that footage, I find it surprising that he suffered from the deceleration rather than a blow to the head. I suspect if he had actually hit that JCB with his head he wouldn't have survived the impact.
Lets hope he survives what did happen - not looking good though.
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Post by speedysteve on Oct 12, 2014 8:02:44 GMT
I immediately thought, what's a crane with a long boom doing on the race side of the barrier?
The cars weight what 640Kgs with dirver so about 575 alone. It should have been able to boom that out the way. OR, why not fit an armco skirt and soft stuff around them if they much go on track. There's so much money slushing around in F1 a little more for that wouldn't hurt.
Anyway, a week on and Bianci is still in intensive... Sochi qaully went ok I thought - well for Lewis and Bottas and Kvyat:)
Looking forward to the race, but should they really be there, in that country, right now?
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Post by Paul Barker on Oct 12, 2014 8:47:34 GMT
I suspect if he had actually hit that JCB with his head he wouldn't have survived the impact. Lets hope he survives what did happen - not looking good though. His head would have stayed with the tractor and his body gone on with the car. As it is looks worse than what happened to Sena. Not much hope. Two issues to consider. A driver who is always having off's set the scene, and bad track management facilitated the morbidity (and likely mortality). Drivers should be given so many mistakes then a ban from racing. Track management should be better. |
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Post by speedysteve on Oct 12, 2014 16:18:44 GMT
The Russian propaganda GP was ok - special spot for the national anthem... Putin there and needed translator:)
Nice result for Lewis... rest was ok but nothing really special.
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Post by MartinT on Oct 12, 2014 16:54:36 GMT
A dull but faultless win for Hamilton was very welcome. Hard to believe he's won 8 GPs but only 17 points ahead, pointing to all the unreliability he's had. The circuit is a good one but the tyre choices by Pirelli were too conservative. It should not have been possible for anyone to complete the entire race on one set of tyres.
At their rate of progress, Williams will be a serious force next year.
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Post by Tim on Oct 12, 2014 20:08:54 GMT
I didn't enjoy that at all . . . didn't like the circuit either, but I'm not a fan of street circuits apart from Monaco.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2014 10:15:06 GMT
I found the circuit a disappointment. In theory it looked wide and likely to provide lots of passing places. However, it seems too fast as all the cars are so close in performance in a straight line that there seemed little chance of changing places. Massa really should have been able to get 10th in that car.
Missed the start as we were watching touring cars at Brands. It seems to have been the only excitement.
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Post by speedysteve on Oct 13, 2014 21:03:09 GMT
I found the circuit a disappointment. In theory it looked wide and likely to provide lots of passing places. However, it seems too fast as all the cars are so close in performance in a straight line that there seemed little chance of changing places. Massa really should have been able to get 10th in that car. Missed the start as we were watching touring cars at Brands. It seems to have been the only excitement. I have 6 hours of touring cars and support races to cram in somewhere. Admittedly I do keep all F3, FF, GT and Superbikes stuff for the long F1 / touring car / MotoGP less winter... |
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Post by pre65 on Oct 25, 2014 10:41:58 GMT
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Post by MartinT on Oct 25, 2014 11:10:47 GMT
It seems incredibly tough to survive at the bottom of the table in F1. Marussia strike me as a well run team, but how do they get enough funding?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2014 11:40:20 GMT
It seems incredibly tough to survive at the bottom of the table in F1. Marussia strike me as a well run team, but how do they get enough funding? The whole thing is just too damned expensive. Bernie and his cohorts have turned it into a money making machine instead of a sport and this is the inevitable consequence. A few rich teams and no minnows is going to make it all the more boring. Bring back the local garage turning out proper racing cars instead of planes with wheels on and I will start to enjoy it all again. Signed BOF. AOM. |
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Post by pre65 on Oct 25, 2014 12:08:50 GMT
I know what you mean about garages building cars.
Takes me back to my youth watching club racing at Brands Hatch.
V8 Ford Anglias and Jag engined Escorts come to mind. 
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2014 12:24:20 GMT
I know what you mean about garages building cars.
Takes me back to my youth watching club racing at Brands Hatch.
V8 Ford Anglias and Jag engined Escorts come to mind. Don't start me on nostalgia. I used to have a hot Anglia and my mates had minis and landcrabs. Brands was a place of pilgrimage. It was only an hour away down the A20 and much fun was had getting there and back, scaring the local law abiding motorists in their Rovers and Austin A30s. Quite how we lived through it I'm not sure but here I am, doing my boring old man bit in an Audi A4. |
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Post by pre65 on Oct 27, 2014 11:31:01 GMT
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