Man of Honour
On his last few laps before pitting, LH was lapping around as fast as 8th place qualifying pace!
HUNGARORING - BUDAPEST - HUNGARY Grand Prix 2009 - Race 10/17
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Soldato
Red Bull employing the student "joke" pit crew today?
Soldato
Have you ever watched racing before?
Don
Red bull doing everything they can to not win here!! Webber will surely get punished..
lets think about that shall we. I'm not the one coming out with silly opinions that has never been the case in racing. The danger is he wheel falling of. SO why retire after it's come of. You stance makes no sense at all
Man of Honour
Lewis 1st
Button 2nd
Although Button hasn't pitted yet....
But still cool!
Button 2nd
Although Button hasn't pitted yet....
But still cool!
Soldato
You clearly are trolling, the comments you make show that you've not a clue how "racing" works.
You don't just retire a "working" car immediately because a tyre isnt on correctly.
You don't just retire a "working" car immediately because a tyre isnt on correctly.
Soldato
Yeah after Raikkonens after the race review I fully expect Webber to get a 5 minute kitkat stop enforced immediately
Soldato
Thinking about it, I wonder if Piquet slipped the wheel man / lolly pop man a bung to mess up Alonso so he can keep his drive for the rest of the season
Soldato
There are three dangers here. A very slow moving car, a potential wheel flying off & a three-wheeled car scraping along the ground. Now 1 and 3 are possibly okay, but my stance is as soon as he saw that wheel starting to fall off, he should have dived off the track.
Anyway, back to the race ...
Man of Honour
Button in!
Soldato
Did anyone else see one of the Red Bull mechanics hopping about like he had been run over during the pit stop?
Soldato
Wow, JB is faar behind..
Soldato
So you'd cotton wool wrap the entire sport? Why not just ban racing completely and have the winner decided by 1 lap shootouts? :|
Soldato
Button stuck behind a heavily fuelled Force India :/
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Once the wheel is off, theres really no danger, except of course for a slow car on the track which can very well be dangerous, however an experienced driver staying off the driving line is fine, though an overtaking move with two very fast cars spread across the track, being off the racing line might not help coming around a blind corner(which is rare on these tracks, a hill would be more dangerous).
However, if you THINK a wheel is about to come off you SHOULD stop. That car was dangerous, there was a HUGE chance the extra big might drop off and shatter which is dangerous and a very high chance that wheel was coming off which also was a hazard, to fans, to stewards, to other cards, look what a TINY piece of crap hitting Massa did, a tyre, quite literally and obviously can kill someone easily bouncing along, if it goes past a corner and went across the track after a turn which a driver wouldn't see.
If theres a chance your tyre can come off you should stop, flat out. He was stupid to stay on, lets be honest, 8 seconds out the pitts he knew at best he'd finish in the last 5 people on the track if he was very lucky with retired cars that might even be 12th or something, not worth the risk.
I mean, the poor guy that died the other week, can you imagine the outrage if the guy knew there was a problem with the tyre that came off and he did nothing to stop the danger(this is if i'm remember right, it was a tyre that hit and killed the driver wasn't it?).
A slow car of teh racing line. Which happens in many situations for many reasons. A car scrapping along is no problem at all. It's only the skid pan, what do you expect to happen.
As for a lose wheel if you watch racing then you know it does not happen. You get back to the pits and carry on.
As for a lose wheel if you watch racing then you know it does not happen. You get back to the pits and carry on.
Soldato
Vettel says something is broken! 