Japanese Grand Prix 2014, Suzuka - Race 15/19

The problem with lifting for yellow flags is you lose time. Unless they can implement a way to force every driver on the track to slow down, nobody will. Why should Driver 1 lift, losing 10 seconds, only for Driver 2 to not lift and close the gap to Driver 1?

In that regard, I can understand why they don't lift.
 
Oh yeah! Doh... stupid comment. Given that then, and the fact that a Yellow was being waved, then I guess it is a freak accident unless Jules didn't really slow down anywhere near enough.

Hopefully it will be a wake up call to the rest of the drivers to actually slow down through yellows.
 
Skeeter said:
Yes. The flag was changed to green once Sutils car had been carried back beyond that flag post. Bianchi would have left control much further back though, well within the yellow flag zone and likely not even in sight of the green flag, let alone alongside it.

The issue isn't the flag, its the wider issue of drivers not slowing down through yellow flag zones because, frankly, the FIA have done sweet F A about punishing it.
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Thanks, helps me understand the flag system better. However until,the car and recovery vehicles were removed from track that's when In my mind the green flag should have started.
 
The green flag is used to indicate the end of a yellow flag zone. There is always one when there are yellows.

Initially the green would have been shown at the next flag post further around the track, and the post by Sutils car was yellow. Once the recovery was back behind the post the green flag was moved back one post to the one in the TV shot, effectively moving the yellow flag zone as the hazard withing it moves.
 
Skeeter said:
Yep. Basically so long as you don't set a personal best through that sector your free to go as fast as you like.
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Which is an archaic way of going about it. If a driver has the potential to go 5 seconds faster in a sector because they've changed to inters or slicks, but back off briefly losing a second for a yellow flag, they then have to continue backing off for the duration of the sector as they might still make up 4 seconds. It's ********.

Something has to change and it needn't cost millions to do so. They have the means and method already to implement a slow zone, or even just to time cars between the dozens of timing points on each and every track.
 
That video is shocking.

The reason the Loader lifted was the counterbalance effect of Sutils car otherwise it would have been.......

You figure that bit out !

I sincerely hope he does recover with no long term effects and boom cranes are made a mandatory implementation outside the safety fence wherever feasible.
 
So, as there is no Russia thread yet, and at the risk of being the labelled the heartless one.... (Get well Jules!! We want you back asap!)

Who will be driving the second car in Russia for Marussia? I heard they had a full spare parts car available, so its feasible they will have the car built in time for the race. I suspect they will have to run the second car or it will cost them too much in lost sponsorship/revenue. So I fully expect someone to be asked/offered to buy the seat?

Any suggestions?

I have heard the following options so far:
Petrov returning for a home race (unlikely)
RB buying the seat for Verstappen (unlikely I feel, but not impossible!)
Alexander Rossi - More likely?
Will Stevens - Possible...
 
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Malt_Vinegar said:
I have heard the following options so far:
Petrov returning for a home race (unlikely)
Ferrari buying the seat for Verstappen (unlikely I feel, but not impossible!)
Alexander Rossi - More likely?
Will Stevens - Possible...
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Doubt anyone will (if the gap was a 2-week one it would have been more likely) but if they do choose to replace him then it will likely be Rossi.

Why would Ferrari buy a seat for a Red Bull driver? :confused:
 
I guess there is hope in the knowledge that he will be receiving world class care, which will likely be leagues ahead of normal care received in these cases. Also we shouldnt forget that F1 drivers are exceptional indiviuals and lets hope that goes someway towards helping in recovery.
 
Syla5 said:
http://www.planet-f1.com/driver/3213/9507770/Bianchi-suffered-diffuse-axonal-injury-

Further detail on the injury's Jules Bianchi has suffered. Wiki Doctoring does not bode well for him with 90% of severe DAI sufferers never regaining conciousness :(

Heres hoping it is mild DAI, sadly though nothing about the crash looked mild :(
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Sounds like you did exactly the same as me. Heard the news, thought it sounded at least a bit positive, then Googled it and hit the Wiki page... :(
 
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