The Formula 1 Thread - 2014
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Lucky that none of the marshals were hit.
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The video shows an initial yellow flag was being waved at the start of Sutil's recovery. It changed to green before the car was fully removed and, importantly, before Bianchi hit the tow truck. It then changed back to yellow. I suspect this will become a major point in the inevitable aftermath, however Bianchi fares.
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The video shows an initial yellow flag was being waved at the start of Sutil's recovery. It changed to green before the car was fully removed and, importantly, before Bianchi hit the tow truck. It then changed back to yellow. I suspect this will become a major point in the inevitable aftermath, however Bianchi fares.
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The green flag doesn't really signify anything as it is being waved after the point of Bianchi's accident. Correctly or not, it was being waved to signify the end of a yellow flag zone and until a car passes the green flag it is still subject to the rules on yellow flags. Bianchi's accident clearly was happening before he reached that particular green flag (I'm not even sure he reached it at all) and he would still have been in a yellow flag zone, that is unless there was a green flag being waved further back up the circuit which we can't see in the video.
Still a miracle he has survived at all, but none of us know what shape he's going to be in
Still a miracle he has survived at all, but none of us know what shape he's going to be in
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The green flag doesn't really signify anything as it is being waved after the point of Bianchi's accident. Correctly or not, it was being waved to signify the end of a yellow flag zone and until a car passes the green flag it is still subject to the rules on yellow flags. Bianchi's accident clearly was happening before he reached that particular green flag (I'm not even sure he reached it at all) and he would still have been in a yellow flag zone, that is unless there was a green flag being waved further back up the circuit which we can't see in the video.
Still a miracle he has survived at all, but none of us know what shape he's going to be in
Still a miracle he has survived at all, but none of us know what shape he's going to be in
I don't think anyone can criticise the organisers of the event, it was a freak accident. We have something at work that managers bang on about called the "Swiss cheese effect" where something is fine until all the holes (circumstances) line up and then you have a problem. I think maybe the warning signs were there that it was too wet to race but its hard for someone to make a judgement call from the pitwall.
In Jules favour when footage is slowed down the top of his head looks about the same height or maybe lower than the part of the tractor the car whacked into. People are talking about changing the design of the cars but no car is going to withstand an impact like that against a solid object. Even if the car did survive the force on the drivers brain would kill him instantly. Bianchi has probably been saved by the fact that the car glanced the tractor so the energy was released slower compared to a straight impact.
I really hope he makes a full recovery, Massa being hit by the spring should of killed him so F1 has had a fair bit of luck over the years.