F1/Bianchi

[Luckypants]

Originally Posted by smiley125

I've just seen the footage of the crash.. shot on a personal camera... They started waving green flags whilst the recovery vehicle and the wreck was still on the track side far too soon in my eyes.

I've watched the same footage and wondered why they were waving green flags when the recovery tractor was still trackside.

Just found the video:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/mot...-accident.html

What he is doing with the green flag there is a mystery to me. I doubt the section of track had been declared safe by race control. Unless that was supposed to indicate the end of the yellow flag section, the real danger was in the braking zone.

[Red Herring]

Originally Posted by SvNewbie

..... Unless that was supposed to indicate the end of the yellow flag section, the real danger was in the braking zone.

This, green flags are shown at the marshall post immediately after the incident, which technically that post was.

[NTECUK]

And you are not supposed to get back up to race speed until you pass the flag yes ??

In much better news:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/formul...er-can-4395046

[pookie]

Hope Jules and Schumi get well and up to speed soon..

I feel the situation was compounded by the directive of the Bernie/ Charlie/ FIA to reduce the interference of stewards on races. See the strewn car on the home straight in hungary I think without a safety car ( the one hamilton flew past)

In addition did we all forget they introduced a ban on radio communications last Grand prix in the middle of a season only to back track slightly.I cant believe any team / driver can change adapt their approach to racing without a consequence in the short time frame they were given. Maybe helping the driver when stay on the road would be more a priority in the case of adverse weather.

The show that F1 so proudly promotes cant have it both ways where drivers are on the edge or 100% safe and sanitised.

[rowdy]

The accident involved bianchi's car submarining under the back of the jcb.
Surely in a multi million pound sport full of top designers someone could come up with a large rubber safety ring surrounding the jcb's like a massive bumper car, to stop a car from being able to submarine, or to lessen the impact.

[Red Herring]

Surely in a multi million pound sport full of top drivers we should be able to trust them to slow down and not crash when not actually racing...?

[maviczap]

Maybe in a multimillon pound sport the race officials could send out a signal to change the engine management settings to slow drivers down automatically?

The teams can change engine settings remotely now can't they?

[NTECUK]

Originally Posted by maviczap

Maybe in a multimillon pound sport the race officials could send out a signal to change the engine management settings to slow drivers down automatically?

The teams can change engine settings remotely now can't they?

So that argument can be used to say " As we don't think that the drivers can actually drive to the rules, every time they have an incursion we can shut off the full power.
Dangerous situation.