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Jules Bianchi has sustained "severe head injury" in today's crash on lap 47 of the Japanese Grand Prix. The Frenchman is currently undergoing surgery at Mie hospital in Japan.
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/116176Shakeman wrote:Nico conceded Lewis was much faster today and no mention of setup differences. Nico mentioned the oversteer and said Lewis would've had it too and was not as comfortable with the handling.RZS10 wrote:Since we don't have any news on Bianchi...
Did Hamilton just have a better setup for the (wet) race compromising his result in Q or is he just faster
if he needs a surgery it i probably very serious. I hope it will turn out good at the end..... [-o<ChrisM40 wrote:Some news from French TV. Jules never stopped breathing on his own but is in a coma. His father says he is being operated on now.
They surely have to open his skull to reduce the pressure in the swollen brain (Decompressive craniectomy)vall wrote:if he needs a surgery it i probably very serious. I hope it will turn out good at the end..... [-o<ChrisM40 wrote:Some news from French TV. Jules never stopped breathing on his own but is in a coma. His father says he is being operated on now.
There should be new flag rule long enough before crash site where driver will have time to react and will have to start slowing down (no sudden cut of power) to some speed limit. Of corse no overtaking would be alowed etc...Diesel wrote:No that's dangerous, if you suddenly cut the power you can trigger off power oversteer which could result in a nasty crash. Putting the pit limiter on would be like going from 5th to 1st gear in a road car.SiLo wrote:It looks like Bianchi went in there at quite some speed though, even the crash structures are ruined which withstand stupid forces during crashes.
Personally I think they should run the same system as the WEC. Where as soon as they enter the yellow zone the cars are all limited to one speed, kind of like putting the pit lane limiter on. That way all drivers reduce their speed to something reasonable, and you don't get one being cheeky and going a bit faster, and you also don't get the issue of them not seeing waved flags, or claiming they didn't see them.
The crane shouldn't have been on the circuit unless the SC was out. There have been a few near misses this year in similar situations.
It's not fair to point fingers at anyone here, it's a whole multitude of things coming together to produce an unfortunately result.
We don't know if the FIA ask for the crane to recover the car, or if the marshall's took it upon themselves to recover the car.
But probably too sudden for drivers, imagine being in a corner and they cut your power...Töm87 wrote:Wouldn't it be quiet easy to have an automatic speed limiter once double yellow is shown? As soon as double yellow is inforced Charlie pushes a butto and all cars switch to the boxing speed limit right away. Not to difficult from a technical point of view.
Your car would slow down. What's the problem?RZS10 wrote:But probably too sudden for drivers, imagine being in a corner and they cut your power...Töm87 wrote:Wouldn't it be quiet easy to have an automatic speed limiter once double yellow is shown? As soon as double yellow is inforced Charlie pushes a butto and all cars switch to the boxing speed limit right away. Not to difficult from a technical point of view.
Sudden power cutoff at the corner may cause a spin. That's the problem.bonjon1979 wrote:Your car would slow down. What's the problem?
A better solution could be to just disengage the clutch automatically, this would cause no engine braking moment at the wheels.RZS10 wrote:But probably too sudden for drivers, imagine being in a corner and they cut your power...Töm87 wrote:Wouldn't it be quiet easy to have an automatic speed limiter once double yellow is shown? As soon as double yellow is inforced Charlie pushes a butto and all cars switch to the boxing speed limit right away. Not to difficult from a technical point of view.