2014 FORMULA 1 JAPANESE GRAND PRIX - RACE ***SPOILERS***

2nd surgery and deteriorating

 

LOL With comments like that, one can be forgiven for assuming ... either one or the other below.
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He is deteriorating? Doesn't bode well seems pretty clear already he won't be racing again

 

Crap, come on Jules, hang on in there ... positive thoughts are here with you..

 

Airtroll that sound better

 

Source? What's the best news outlet for updates? Standard places like bbc haven't been updated in hours and hours.

 

Blick.ch

 

I hope and hope that tomorrow I will wake up to good news.

 

They used inters almost the entire race that's hardly dangerous conditions. This could have happened on any track in dry conditions.

It's simply an unfortunate event.

 

One of the things that makes F1 what it is is racing in all conditions.
It will never be entirely safe but must be as safe as is practical.
Something went wrong today and its up to the sport to see that its not repeated.
Is it that difficult to have retrieval cranes with long enough booms for the bodies to stay behind the barriers?
Or not to bring cranes onto the run off areas until the entire field has done at least one lap under yellow?

 

At least none of the workers were struck.

 

Think about how often cranes are used and how often they're struck by other cars. one accident does not mean the whole practice is unsafe. F1 cannot protect against any and all risks. It's not practical or possible. This looks like a VERY unfortunate one-in-a-million case of wrong place at the wrong time.


Mark

 

A driver's head can hit the boom of a crane as the car goes airborne...

If a track has dedicated heavy equipment, and the heavy equipment only deals with mostly flat-ish surfaces, adding bumper plates that extend nearer the ground and on the same chrash plane as an F1 would be a reasonable solution. The construction equipment these are adapted from have sloping front and rear ends to allow for extreme angles of climbing up embankments and dirt piles.

 

Yes in general, no to its rarety.

Remember Interlagos where rain caused a stop (and confusion over whether Fisi or Kimi won)?

MS was almost decapitated by sliding underneath one of these things still working on another F1.

 

This is why fire engines in US, park partly crosswise and obstruct the accident scenes they arrive at. Its a lesser tragedy to lose a driver that controlled his destiny than to get struck down as a corner worker.

The plastic sheeting held up by officials to keep spectators from being exposed to the shock from viewing Jules' body being removed from the car give me little optimism at all in this situation. I sadly do not know anything about Jules tbh. In Senna's case, it wasn't a sad death, Senna knew he was going to die someday, and knew his soul would continue.

 

Thanks.

 

Why didn't the start the race earlier? NBC's broadcast said that the fia gave the organizers the option to start earlier, but they declined?

 

Ask Bernie, but I'm guessing it might have something to do with $$$...

 

Booking of transmission time on the satellite and scheduling slots with all the TV networks. Not easy to change at short notice

 

Also the large number of fans arriving by bullet train with pre-purchased tickets for a specific train.

 

Reports were that most were there hours ahead.

 

That's exactly what I thought, thanks for clearing it up

I send him a carton of Chivas for xmas and it's gone by the GP .... he has no friends so drinks alone

 

Well, the no friends part speaks for itself.

 

I like it!

 

thanks!