F1 Testing 2015: Week 2 Barcelona (19th - 22nd)

Skeeter said:
I missed that. 'Routine sedation' doesn't sound good...
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Exactly when is it ever routine to sedate someone following a crash. We've seen plenty of crashes where drivers have got out of the car and gone to the medical centre and are back home by the evening/next day.

What did vettel say again? That he saw the car travelling slowly and then pull to the right into the wall?

Anyway hopefully it's nothing.
 
Skeeter said:
Hmm.

McLaren confirmed that he was concious before the crash, braking and down shifting, but they haven't confirmed he was concious after impact. If you couple that with him being extracted from the car rather then getting himself out, the fact he's still in hospital 3 days later, and that it took 15 seconds for the car to stop which suggests it was just rolling along on its own without any driver input, it makes me think the impact was a serious sideways clout that knocked him out.
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It would have taken them ages to get him out of the car if they suspected any possible neck or back injuries (and he does still have back pain (as well as headaches) in hospital according to the reports last night). If the head injury wasn't deemed critical at the time then they'd have taken all of the time they needed to apply the neck brace, lift him out in his seat and apply the usual backboards and so on.

It takes them 7-10 minutes to get an unconscious footballer off the field due to the same precautions taken in case there is a neck injury (unless hospital treatment is deemed urgent I guess).



Lakeland said:
Wow, that is some clever PR work going on there. Almost as good as the 'gusty wind' that made him crash.
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It was also a factor in Carlos Sainz crashing in the same corner later on in the day.

The wind didn't directly make him crash, but it was probably a contributor. They run around the outside of the corner from about half-way around the corner, so all it took was a slight miscalculation and he'd have been on the astroturf - that's what caused the spear towards the inside, exactly the same as Maldonado's crash last year, though at a different angle of contact.



SS-89 said:
Exactly when is it ever routine to sedate someone following a crash.
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Apparently it is routine to sedate them for a flight to the hospital, though I've read that they don't need recuperation in the subsequent days from the sedation, but can't quantify it myself. There were reports that he was agitated at the scene of the crash (which is quite possible in a concussed patient) so it's quite possible he was sedated at the scene.



SS-89 said:
Exactly when is it ever routine to sedate someone following a crash. We've seen plenty of crashes where drivers have got out of the car and gone to the medical centre and are back home by the evening/next day.

What did vettel say again? That he saw the car travelling slowly and then pull to the right into the wall?

Anyway hopefully it's nothing.
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"turn right into the wall", which could either mean steering right or rotate right (as in slide, to get turned). It wasn't from Vettel directly either, but tweeted by Tobias Gruner.

There's been plenty of speculation as to whether Vettel could have seen the cause for the accident though, as there's video of Vettel exiting the pits and going wide at turn 1 and when Alonso is accelerating up through turn 3 Vettel is still negotiating the sleeping policemen. And Alonso looked on it at the time, though perhaps not 100%.
 
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:eek: k mag will replace Alonso for the next test. Although he has now left hospital.
It has to be worse than they saying, must be at least a full on concussion which can take several weeks to recover from.
 
Sounds like fairly standard concussion protocol really.

Concussion often doesn't show up on CT/MRI scans, but can take a few weeks to recover from (well to be able to race for example).

It may seem quite severe and serious, but if anyone follows other sports with concussion protocols (e.g. rugby) it's not really anything to be overly concerned about currently.
 
Plus even if there was the smallest risk surely you'd skip the last test, especially when the best the team can really hope for based off the last test is to do more than 10 laps on a run, let alone any useful setup/development work that they may need Alonso for...

So rest, heal and get ready for the first 10-15 laps of the Australian GP :p
 
3rd nights in hospital for Alonso. Surprising considering McLarens near continuous 'Alonso is ok' on the day of the accident.

McLaren also replacing Honda's ERS system with their own for the next test to try and increase reliability. Did Honda just pull one from a Civic and bolt it straight on? Can't see it being a great solution as it'll have to be adapted from Mercedes system to Honda. There's also a possibility it's a modified version from the V8 days too, as didn't they use the Mercedes ERS last year?

And now we've got the FIA launching an investigation into Alonso's accident. I'm sure that'll get to the truth... :rolleyes:
 
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