HUNGARORING - BUDAPEST - HUNGARY Grand Prix 2009 - Race 10/17

So, back to the good old days: McLaren vs Ferrari.

It took 8 races for the status quo to be re-balanced.

I'm totally shocked to see how fast Brawn have been usurped. I've not seen a team go backwards so quickly. 2009 certainly is a strange season.
 
Emlyn_Dewar said:
Up until a couple of weeks ago, nobody would have given too much thought, other than "dangerous".
Now, everyone has to stop just incase bad things happen?
It's a dangerous sport, it's the way it is. It's all those nannying opinions that ruin the racing and get stupid penalties applied.
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Twaddle, I'm completely against stupidly stunting cars for safety, this wasn't that, 2 seconds out the pitlane his race was ALREADY OVER, he was 1st and he went to hopefully staying on for last, who cares if he finishes. At that point, if theres a 95% chance the wheel will come off, and wheel's can kill anyone, they bounce, could have gotten unlucky, come off at higher speed on a straight, bounced over a fence and killed a family sitting on the side of the track.

Theres risk, and theres risk. When you can be almost sure something bad will happen, you stop, when theres a very low/normal chance something bad will happen thats one thing. But a stupidly high chance due to a incorrectly fitted part and you stop, its fairly simple.

Its also got nothing to do with the guy who died, thats just the most recent example, bouncing heavy tyres that, this is the problem they are designed to role, bounce and retain their speed till they hit something, almost anything else that comes off the car isn't designed to move, it will hit the track and slow down, tyres bounce because of what they are made from, its a completely different risk. The massa incident was a fluke, but had that been a tyre he hit he'd be dead now.
 
drunkenmaster said:
could have gotten unlucky, come off at higher speed on a straight, bounced over a fence and killed a family sitting on the side of the track.
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But these wild "what if" scenarios are what causes the mass over-reaction.
"Anything can happen in F1, but you might as well stop and give up now." It's not really the sort of thing I'd want to become the mainstream way of racing.

Edit: My god, unlucky pit stop for Kimi. It's not a good day for so many drivers today.
 
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