Spanish GP 2012 - Barcelona

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Holy isht

Senna's car

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That's just heartbreaking. I'm glad Frank made it out.

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First ever KERS-related accident? Any ideas as to what caused it? Someone accidentally spilling champagne on the exposed KERS unit from Senna's car during the wild celebrations inside the Williams garage, perhaps?

Hope none of the injuries were serious.

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It sounds like a hell of a fire.

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Word is some very brave guys from Caterham really helped out.

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Video of fire starting

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soH-tQ9iw78[/youtube]

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Video link here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9QLET_u1DA

I hope that's allowed...

I really hope no one was seriously injured.

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http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/99581

Sennas comments say it all ..he was already hit by Grosjean the lap before into turn 1 as he was braking so early and wanted to make sure not to run into the same with schumacher on new rubber...jesus christ ..what was he thinking? He was clearly defending his position...running in the middle of the road ...what was he thinking what Schumacher would do ? If he intended not to get into trouble driving in the middle of the road pretending flicks to the left and right and hitting the brakes early was a sure way to get hit...

Let´s hope the Williams guys are all ok after that pit accident.
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Image “The force can have a strong influence on the weak-minded”: [Obi Wan Kenobi]

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What's disappointing to me is that we will never know the true race pace of the McLaren at this circuit. I think Lewis would have walked all over everyone, given his two stop performance today.

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Crucial_Xtreme wrote:Image
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That doesn't look like it has started on the car..

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JamesS wrote:What's disappointing to me is that we will never know the true race pace of the McLaren at this circuit. I think Lewis would have walked all over everyone, given his two stop performance today.
Vettel had four turns in the pits, one including a nose cone change. Imagine what he could have done if on a legit 3 stop.
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Fire started in the other side of the garage, possibly from Pastor's car.

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e30ernest wrote:Video link here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9QLET_u1DA

I hope that's allowed...

I really hope no one was seriously injured.
Thanks for the clip.

Stupidest quote in F1 from that clip....looking at the fire and smoke... " it's not a Williams celebration is it?".... :roll:
Generally I don't care about what people say. I have to be clear with myself. When everything goes well, people celebrate you, when you make mistakes people criticize you.
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Diesel wrote:Fire started in the other side of the garage, possibly from Pastor's car.
Pators car (Chassis 04) was up in Parc Ferme with its chief mechanic and No: 1 data engineer as is to part ferme rules.