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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.
Promising news. Hopeful of a quick and full recovery. Continued thoughts and [-o< .
The ORF moderators got it relatively fast from other sources and told DC what they knew.Shakeman wrote:You realise in the comm box they only have a tiny monitor not a 60" plasma. It was impossible to see what was happening behind the tractor and only once did a BIA graphic appear briefly at the incident, easily missed if you're also looking out the window and on other monitors trying to follow the chaos.ChrisM40 wrote:Just seen the BBC coverage, totally clueless about the Bianchi accident.
The main broadcast feed missed the Bianchi crash otherwise the replay would've easily shown them what was happening, the BBC comm box were as clueless as everyone else.
You should read everything...Sutil also said, that cars were going flat out through this corner during the safety car period after the Bianchi crash...SC would have changed nothing.F1NAC wrote:It was poor visibility, even Sutil said that. Possibly he didn't saw double yellows or he entered too fast in zone with double yellows. There was surely need for a safety car when machinery is going out and the track is wet. There is no excuse for thatringo wrote:Slowing down suffiently at double yellows is the solution. These guys are paid big bucks, they know it's a high risk job and so they need to be fully responsible for their own safety. There's only so much that the fia can do. I think the measures in place are sufficient apart from looking into more detail thr deployment of tge tractor, everything else should rest on the driver when it comes to safe conduct on track and duting yellow flags.
It has already been reported that he never stopped breathing on his own. This isn't news.
This is talking about AFTER the surgery, so this IS news.Waywardism wrote:It has already been reported that he never stopped breathing on his own. This isn't news.
yep, there's the thing about safety car, before the formation is made the cars are free to choose the pace (they have deltas but they seem to be way up). There needs to be some system that will limit the speed.basti313 wrote:You should read everything...Sutil also said, that cars were going flat out through this corner during the safety car period after the Bianchi crash...SC would have changed nothing.
Really? They introduced the delta times to make sure cars didn't go too fast.basti313 wrote:You should read everything...Sutil also said, that cars were going flat out through this corner during the safety car period after the Bianchi crash...SC would have changed nothing.
FOM offered a 11am start local time twice and a Saturday race was mentioned by the pundits about being offered too.Richard wrote:Maybe I'm missing something but an earlier race would have been worse? They started under the safety car for 2 laps then stopped on lap 3 for the rain to ease up. After that we had pretty good racing in inters for most drivers. Many of the drivers were still setting good times on inters at the end of the race.
In contrast, lets say they brought the start forward by an hour or two, then the race would have ended in very heavy rain, the same sort of stuff they started with today.
The race was going to be wet whatever time is started, and it seems to me that we were fortunate most of it took place in a window of relatively less heavy rain.
