Japanese Grand Prix 2014, Suzuka - Race 15/19

My thoughts are that he moved his head, I really think that had his helmet hit the body of the recovery vehicle in any way but a minor glance, it would have decapitated him. They said deceleration put him under 50g didnt they? So his injuries are more likely secondry or third collision I would have though. I just can't see how he could have survived a physical impact with the vehicle.
 
justbeats said:
So I watched the re-run just after midday on the BBC. Suzie Perry opens the show with the news and says 'we won't show you the footage of the crash but we will show you the race'. Not only did they not have any footage whatsoever, they didn't even know that Bianchi had gone off. Had anyone watched it live on the BBC then nobody would have been none the wiser, they really are bloody useless. It's not bad enough we have to put up with that idiot commentator waffling pretty much crap through the entire race...
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I was watching it live on the BBC and I knew something had happened when the marshals were giving the wave for medical assistance. Then when Bianchi started slipping down the order and they cut to the Marussia garage twice in a short space of time I put two and two together and that horrible feeling starting coming over me, when you know it could be a bad one.

The first the BBC noticed was when all the cars were sat at the end of the pitlane a good 5 or 10 minutes later.
 
I've just had a quick look at the track on google earth (so admittedly, it may be out of date) and if he'd have gone through, he was hitting nothing but what looks to be a concrete wall, head on :eek:
 
The Suzuka circuit is on Google Street View.

If you look at the gap in the barrier you would need to be going at quite an odd angle from the direction of the track in order to make it through.

On another note though, it looks like Bianchi might have missed the gravel trap and slid across the tarmac that forms the hairpin from the short circuit.
 
just watched the video, although it is bad, it could have been so much worse.

If he was a couple of meters to the left he would have taken out two marshals aswell, ans would have more than likely meant their deaths.

he is incredibly luck that he only caught the side of the tractor and didn't go under it fully.
 
kaiowas said:
From looking at it I'm not entirely sure there is actually a barrier in front of the car. Without the impact on the loader it looks as though his car could have achieved the unthinkable and passed straight through the gap in the barriers and ended up who knows where. I'm sure the barriers are supposed to overlap in a way that makes this impossible but I can't see it. If he was on a trajectory to pass through the gap then it would have been a seriously weird way of leaving the track.
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Unless they had opened the barrier to allow the jcb out...
 
I was going to say looking at the video even if the vehicle wasn't there the speed he was going he was heading straight through that gap into god knows where, there were cars, marshalls and all sorts behind the barrier milling about.

Though the deceleration forces on that must have been insane he was travelling like 100+ mph when he hit the recovery truck less than 10-15 feet later the vehicle was stopped completely :eek:
 
Is that confirmed? That post 10 was a green flag while there were men and machinery on track? I seem to recall the on screen graphic showing all of that turn under yellow from a lot further forward?
 
this_is_gav said:
I was watching it live on the BBC and I knew something had happened when the marshals were giving the wave for medical assistance. Then when Bianchi started slipping down the order and they cut to the Marussia garage twice in a short space of time I put two and two together and that horrible feeling starting coming over me, when you know it could be a bad one.

The first the BBC noticed was when all the cars were sat at the end of the pitlane a good 5 or 10 minutes later.
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That's how I saw it exactly, how could they not notice? After the initial 'Suzie statement' I was on tenterhooks the whole race and then, nothing from them...

Seriously wtf BBC?
 
Skeeter said:
Is that confirmed? That post 10 was a green flag while there were men and machinery on track? I seem to recall the on screen graphic showing all of that turn under yellow from a lot further forward?
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If that's correct and P10 was green then that's even more shocking than the lack of a SC! Serious questions need asking and people held to account over this.
 
The commentary teams are just looking at the same TV pictures we look at, since we never seen anything of the accident then it's not hard to see why they missed it.
 
Mr Men said:
The commentary teams are just looking at the same TV pictures we look at, since we never seen anything of the accident then it's not hard to see why they missed it.
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Apparently sky (among others) didn't miss it, everyone in the pit lane were sombre you could see that, and yet the BBC were saying nothing about it, until DC finally noticed...
 
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