Japanese Grand Prix 2014, Suzuka - Race 15/19

Housey said:
You need to take into account conditions and how difficult it is to spot flags sometimes. It's not like looking for a traffic light, you are going very quick with reduced lateral vision in heavy spray perhaps focused on a move or other car. It is often the actions of other things that bring an incident to a drivers attention first. Running marshals, crowd, cars etc.
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They have lights on their dashboard along with a radio.
 
Very sad to hear of Bianci's injury.

I don't think that race control or marshals acted inappropriately but the FIA may have to look at safety modifications to those recovery vehicles for future races.

On the race itself, I missed the first twenty laps or so, Hamilton looked to have a massive edge over Rosberg. Great drive in tricky conditions.
 
JUMPURS said:
Should they FIA not look at putting a mandatory 'crash skirt' around the bottom of the rescue vehicles? Since the biggest problem is going under it or hitting the pointy parts of it? if they put a 3/4 foot skirt around these big JCB's, wouldn't that significantly reduce the risks?
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They should do yes as it helps with any single seaters, so surprised they hadn't in the past. No doubt if they did now, it would be branded as knee jerk reaction on here.
 
Housey said:
It doesn't matter the point still stands, it can take a couple of stations to notice, that was my point. Not saying it applies here, just a general point.
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He didn't follow him straight in, Sutil went off and it was a full lap before bianchi did, which point the team will/should have been telling him where the double yellows are, and the lights will appear on his dash. Also the fading light would have made the lights on the dash even more noticeable.
 
I'm watching the race for the first time now. I repeat it was a general point as I said above. I speak as someone who has missed flags in a race not from my armchair too. :)
 
matty114 said:
These?

http://autosprint.corrieredellosport.it/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/01.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/ZAwsv0J.jpg

Holy ****!
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Christ.

Looking back at the TV pics, you can see the rear right tyre on the JCB is flat, he must have hit it hard and partially spun the JCB around.

The amount of energy required to spin that thing round and rip off an F1 roll hoop really doesn't bode well for him. He's probably had his head pushed down in the impact by the way he's sitting.

Not looking good :(
 
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