Henry Surtees dies after F2 crash

It's awful isn't it :(

How will the FIA respond? They have to do something to prevent it happening again, surely?
 
It was pretty much of a fluke accident having seen the video on YouTube and probably some wheel teathers would have prevented it occuring.
 
I think the wheels will have been tethered, it must have just failed.

[edit] Watching the video again and how easily the rear wheel of Henry's car comes loose, it appears I'm wrong :(
 
Stronger wheel tethers?

Terribly unlucky though.. to be hit on the head in one of those by a wheel.. poor young chap, RIP.
 
NathanE said:
It's awful isn't it :(

How will the FIA respond? They have to do something to prevent it happening again, surely?
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As it's Max's baby... Who knows. Doesn't reflect well on Max, Johnathan Palmer or indeed Williams who designed and built the cars.

F2 has wheel tethers and the energy in a F2 accident should be much lower than the energy in a F1 accident - uprate the teathers to F1 spec *if they're not already*
 
I was watching live when it happened, and only just found the article advising of his death :(. I'd been hoping all day that article wouldn't appear.

It was a freak accident. I don't think any tether would have held the wheel on Clark's car.

RIP :(.
 
He actually passed away a few hours back but it wasn't in the public domain officially until a few minutes ago and I didn't want to post until then.
 
I was going to create a post when it happened to ask if anyone else was watching. I didn't because it was almost like admitting how serious it looked :(.
 
RIP.
One question though, which (I apologise for in advance) may be stupid. Why would such a thing kill someone? Now, I understand he has just been (in reality) hit by a tyre at 100+mph, but his crash helmet seemed in tact and I guess there wouldn't have been much head movement due to retraints (hanns device etc).

At any rate, a perfect example of why more money, in a sport that generates so much, needs to be invested in wheel tethers (testing / design / improvement).
 
RIP :(

Goksly, the impact forces on his neck would be quite high with a ~10kgs of tyre/wheel hitting it at what ever speed he was going.

Neil.
 
I would have thought it would be a brain injury similar to that suffered by boxers where the impact causes the brain to rapidly accelerate into the wall of the skull causing massive damage :(
 
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