Dreadful news

[greenandmean]

I agree there has to be changes, just hope the FIA don't over react and throw out a safety car for every minor incident in future.

[Northwarks]

I agree there has to be changes, just hope the FIA don't over react and throw out a safety car for every minor incident in future.

 

and i think this is going to be key, i just don't want to see a safety car every time we get a car parked off the black stuff, <flame suit on> I would prefer full course yellow to at least slow everything down, then a decision made on the recovery tactic, if it needs a tow then we get an approved tow truck with a crush structure to go on track and pull it out of harms way.

 

As everyone has said it was a shocking accident, one (sadly) I guess was bound to happen at some point ... as I was discussing with my son, its really easy to forget how dangerous the sport actually is as an open top/open wheel series, we have seen some huge accidents and drivers 'walk away' thanks to incredible design/material technology, it does give you a false sense of driver invincibility as a spectator until something like last weekend happens ... 

[corsechris]

Some new footage (that may be fake of course, for the tinfoil hat brigade) that shows double waved yellows on the tower just before the incident changing to green as the recovery truck moves back beyond it. First glance says Oh No - what has he done...but then it becomes clear that the flag marshal did the right thing - track was clear beyond his point so wave the green. Key is what was the flag marshal up-stream waving at the time.

[Captain Colonial]

Safety car out every time a car gets parked on the side of the road (without injury) would be a disaster, and you need look no further than NASCAR and Indycar racing.  At the slightest issue, even when a car is still rolling at reduced speed back to the pits with a mechanical failure, a full course yellow comes out and / or the pace car and the field bunches up again.  I've seen a full course yellow at Indy when someone barely kissed a wall with his rear tyre, didn't even slow him down, but suddenly the racing stops and a pace car is out - ridiculous.  Sure, it's exciting at the restart (which often results in a crash and another yellow because they're all bunched up on cooler tyres), but when you start developing your race strategy around the number of full course yellow flags and safety cars there might be, guessing at how much fuel you should carry and when to change tyres, that stops being racing and starts being a game of roulette.

[tisme]

F1 cars are supposed to weigh at least 690kilo - do we really need a builders JCB type vehicle to pick one up? (my apologies to JCB for being quoted in this way - no doubt not even one of your vehicles).

 

Maybe Bernie should look at putting some of his billions into developing bespoke rescue vehicles for the tracks that need them (where cranes can't be used) - surely a challenge ALL the F1 design teams would be up for.

 

Too much money in F1 goes into the wrong pockets for the wrong reason - yes it may have been a "one off" but it was inevitable and foreseeable. That's not something you want on your tombstone. My thoughts and prayers are with Bianchi, his family and Marussia and that he can pull through this horrific time.