Felipe Massa has given his first interview since the horrible crash in qualifying at the Hungarian GP little more than a week ago. Massa shares that he is feeling much better and can't wait to get behind the wheel of his F60, but wants to fully recover before doing so. The interview is courtesy of the Scuderia Ferrari.
Scotracer wrote:I don't think they are allowed to substitute drivers during an event?
19) CHANGES OF DRIVER
19.1 a) During a season each team will be permitted to use four drivers. Changes may be made at any time before the start of the qualifying practice session provided any change proposed after 16.00 on the day of scrutineering receives the consent of the stewards.
Additional changes for reasons of force majeure will be considered separately.
There isn't a Sunday warmup...Conceptual wrote:Does Sunday warmup count for the replacement driver?
There isn't any warm up anymore. But I was thinking along the lines of force majeure rule. Ferrari test drivers are much more experienced than many on the grid (esp. Jaime) so think they can be allowed to start.Conceptual wrote:Does Sunday warmup count for the replacement driver?
Two drivers in six days being injured (minimum) by a part separating from another car and entering the cockpit is no longer a freak accident. It's time to take notice. And remember- the part could have bounced this way instead of that and ended up in the crowd.timbo wrote:Well, in Massa's case it IS a freak accident. Not much can be improved really except the cockpit. However, I don't think canopy is automatically safer - there's possibility of it locking and preventing driver from escaping the car, esp in upside down position.ISLAMATRON wrote:Good Lord that is scary, hope he is fully ok. Are open cockpits soon to be on the way out? How much trouble would a fighter jet style cockpit be to incorperate?
IMHO raced windshield and drag-racer style roll protection is safest of all.
The reaction time would be too great for it to deploy usefully, especially if you relied on the pits to push the button...nosh wrote:i was thinking a parachute like device, like they use in drag racing would possibly useful to help slow the car down in this case. i dont know how it could be activated if they where unconscious (team could possibly do it from pits), this would also be good for brake / wheel failures similar to heikki's crash in spain last year. the parachute could probably be somehow mounted either on the camera bit at the top of the car or some other way
Another issue was that the car was sitting in the tyres with the engine sounding like it was bouncing on the rev limiter- could the the anti-stall have kicked in?modbaraban wrote:modbaraban wrote:He came off the throttle and the deceleration of the car (due to aero drag and hitting the curbs) sent his uncontious body slightly forward which caused very mild braking (+ no grip). The deceleration looked very insignificant. Thus slight and inconsistent skid marks from the front tyres.
There is a tell-tale flouro yellow imprint on the "conveyor belt" after the impact. I doubt that would have helped Felipe... The HANS stops the head going forward, maybe to the impact, but in this case the impacts came to the helmet.dp35 wrote:As a racer that uses a HANS device, IMO the belts, HANS, and helmet did their jobs as designed. The straps of a HANS device can be adjusted, and if they're long they'll allow more head movement before stopping it. Belts are designed to stretch, and these obviously did.
IMO the damage to the helmet was 100% caused by the spring. I can't tell if the helmet hit the steering wheel, but its obvious the spring hit right where the helmet is damaged and the injury occurred.
wondergoblin wrote:Another issue was that the car was sitting in the tyres with the engine sounding like it was bouncing on the rev limiter- could the the anti-stall have kicked in?modbaraban wrote:modbaraban wrote:He came off the throttle and the deceleration of the car (due to aero drag and hitting the curbs) sent his uncontious body slightly forward which caused very mild braking (+ no grip). The deceleration looked very insignificant. Thus slight and inconsistent skid marks from the front tyres.
Maybe there needs to be a G-triggered engine cut- any impact above 10G would probably mean the car is not going much further anyway.
No. To say that Massa is "stable" and that the surgery was "successful" if this were not the case would be sick beyond belief. I think we can believe the press releases.SoundQ wrote:Just a thought: The conspiracy theorists in the Senna crash claimed that death was immediate, but that the announcement was made afterwards for reasons of economics. If I remember correctly, the statement at the time was "coma". Any chance this is the same situation?
