Motorsports Thread

[gbb]

4 laps to go, the best GP ive seen for a long long time. Perez, nowhere all race, now headed for 2nd

 

[gbb]

Still don't think it excuses bad manners

I do hope the rain gods get to play this afternoon & make it exciting

Normally id agree. As a lifelong F1 fan, its now boring, very rare do we get a proper old style spectacle. But today, we got one IMO

 

[Bollo]

Tip of the hat to the people responsible for engineering F1 cars (and the halo rulz). For Zhou to be able to go home in anything other than a box after that crash is outstanding.

 

[icowden]

Normally id agree. As a lifelong F1 fan, its now boring, very rare do we get a proper old style spectacle. But today, we got one IMO

Yep - that was a race! Shame about that last safety car stuffing up Hamilton but still...

 

[figbat]

Yep - that was a race! Shame about that last safety car stuffing up Hamilton but still...

The safety car stuffed Leclerc mainly - Lewis had an opportunity but wasn’t quite fast enough when faced with a Ferrari and RB on the same tyres; yes his charge on the previous tyres was looking promising but it was no slam-dunk. Ferrari once again made the Keystone Cops look like strategy gurus.

George may feel hard done by, but he left the stricken car on the track - I assume the officials are well within their rights to get it out of the way, regardless of what he told them to do.

 

[Reynard]

Tip of the hat to the people responsible for engineering F1 cars (and the halo rulz). For Zhou to be able to go home in anything other than a box after that crash is outstanding.

Yep, this.

My work is still in the DNA of the current generation of side impact structures. It's days like this that makes me proud to have been involved, even in a fairly small way.

I do swear Jo Bauer hasn't aged a day since I saw him last, though...

 

[classic33]

The safety car stuffed Leclerc mainly - Lewis had an opportunity but wasn’t quite fast enough when faced with a Ferrari and RB on the same tyres; yes his charge on the previous tyres was looking promising but it was no slam-dunk. Ferrari once again made the Keystone Cops look like strategy gurus.

George may feel hard done by, but he left the stricken car on the track - I assume the officials are well within their rights to get it out of the way, regardless of what he told them to do.

He was unable to restart the car, and return to the pits unaided. It's in the rules, even Toto has said that.

 

[Reynard]

He was unable to restart the car, and return to the pits unaided. It's in the rules, even Toto has said that.

He could have gone back to the pits, got the bits he needed and gone back. But he was presented with a fait accompli by the marshals.

As soon as the marshals touch the car, that's curtains.

 

[Bollo]

Yep, this.

My work is still in the DNA of the current generation of side impact structures. It's days like this that makes me proud to have been involved, even in a fairly small way.

I do swear Jo Bauer hasn't aged a day since I saw him last, though...

Name dropper 😉👏

 

[classic33]

He could have gone back to the pits, got the bits he needed and gone back. But he was presented with a fait accompli by the marshals.

As soon as the marshals touch the car, that's curtains.

He'd have to get the car back there under the cars own power. He didn't manage that, arriving there on the back of a wagon.

 

[Reynard]

Name dropper 😉👏

 

[figbat]

He could have gone back to the pits, got the bits he needed and gone back. But he was presented with a fait accompli by the marshals.

As soon as the marshals touch the car, that's curtains.

Exactly - as I heard it George told the marshals not to touch it as he ran back to the pits for some advice. They ignored him and recovered the car anyway. As I said, no doubt they are within their rights to clear away stricken cars.

 

[Reynard]

He'd have to get the car back there under the cars own power. He didn't manage that, arriving there on the back of a wagon.

He could have done, but the marshals took that option away. Anyone with half a brain cell could tell there was going to be at least an hour's delay, which would have been ample time to get back to the pits, collect a mechanic with a starter and go back. It's not like it was the other side of the circuit or that the race was going to resume in the next five or ten minutes...

Usually, the UK marshals are the best, but I think the post chief has to carry the can here.

 

[figbat]

…collect a mechanic with a starter and go back.

Mechanical assistance, no?

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Although I feel for George, but I think that was just a bit of inexperience, there was nothing he could have done, so why try? I know that sounds a bit harsh, but there are doctors, extraction teams, properly trained people to deal with situations like this. He more than likely would have got in the way, I also suspect there was an element of guilt in his actions, his moving left to try to block Gasly caused him to veer off to the left to collect Zhou, although it was only a slight touch.