I just hope he's the guy who proves everyone wrong and emerges the guy he was. I bet if nothing is changed, we'd never see such a freak accident like this again.Īnyway. Hopefully the telemetry show the real story. Ultimately, this will bring Formula 1’s safety back into the forefront of the public. Any analysis of the 2016 season opener will include the terrifying accident that sent McLaren Honda driver Fernando Alonso flipping through the sand in a rapidly disintegrating race car. That's where the fix needs to be instead of curing symptoms. Instead, we are faced with the Formula 1 closed cockpit problem. I'm afraid at some point we need to examine the underlying causes or reasons behind him going off. It horrible and I want an answer too because I want to believe crazy sh*t like this cant or shouldn't happen.īut what if it turns out he was just going too fast for the conditions and the circumstances? Honestly.what happens if it was his fault? I don't know if I want to know that answer. We're all searching for answers because of how tragic and completely out of the realm of possibility this all seems. As reported before the last TRM gathering on January 29, the FIA decided. If his car doesn't go off during the double yellow, none of this happens. Although the design of F1s Halo cockpit protection system will be refined at the next Technical Regulations Meeting on February 11 it has already been agreed that the addition of some form of extra screen will not happen for its first season in 2017. That is someone making a F1 car out of a 60s-70s beetle. Oct 6, 2014, 8:12 AM Marussia F1 driver Bianchi suffered a serious head injury after crashing into a recovery vehicle in the closing stages of the Japanese Grand Prix. You don't need to change F1 with cockpits and parachutes, bumpers and all the other ideas. comments sorted by Best Top New Controversial Q&A Add a Comment derkgator Additional comment actions. Honestly, the front loader had nothing to do with this from an errant safety point of view. It was more just 'driver, car and let's go'.I think the reality is that no feels comfortable looking at Jules as the reason this happened. Everything was much more simple, there was not that much politics. They are the second team to test a solution on track, after. "I would like to have lived in the 80s, 90s. The Red Bull Racing Formula One team officially debuted its partially closed cockpit solution during practice this morning in Russia. But the end of the day, how long has F1 had open cockpits for? And we have to keep it like that."įelix da Costa has also lamented the fact that F1 appears set to get rid of an open-cockpit standard that has been around since the dawn of the category. Introducing closed cockpits or partially closed cockpits to Formula 1 is certainly possible, but it may well not be desirable for both aesthetic, engineering. "I know it might not be fair to say, but it's a very dangerous sport and that's why there's only around 20 drivers in a category, rather than 100,000. "It's good that everything is much safer today, we have almost no deaths and that's a big deal. But as a driver I believe that there has to be an element of danger. It is easy to watch the video of the crash which claimed the life of former F1 driver Justin Wilson in Sundays Indycar race at Pocono Raceway and immediately conclude closed cockpits are the next. Sadly, we had to say goodbye to Jules Bianchi, Justin Wilson and Dan Wheldon while a few other drivers had a close brush with death. It must be said that critics do have their reasons. "So I think that is the main idea, that F1 serves an example to the other championships. 2 By: Danny Sosef Every two or three years a new chapter in the discussion about the closed cockpit opens. "Everything that F1 does in three, four or five years will be in every other open-wheel series," the Portuguese racer told. The long nose, the side-pods, the wings that stand out from the. Having served as a Red Bull reserve in 20, Felix da Costa, who now races in Formula E and the DTM, has spoken against the introduction of closed cockpits to F1. Open wheels are important because they have a profound effect on the overall shape of the car.
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