The Bahrain Grand Prix became one to remember, not least because of some spectacular crashes during which fortunately nobody got seriously hurt. But, in the end, it was Hamilton, who else, to win, ahead of the Red Bull duo Verstappen and Albon.
No sane driver would turn down a GP start to win an F2 championship. If he's released by his team, he'll accept an offer - if there's an offer.fritticaldi wrote: ↑29 Nov 2020, 23:52Mick Schumacher will be involved in the F2 final race also at Sakhir where he has a 14 point lead in the Championship standings. So that makes him unavailable as well.
On Twitter his hands and feet are heavily bandaged. He doesn’t look like someone who’ll be driving an F1 car in 4 days. I may be wrong though, far crazier things have happened, especially on the 2 wheeled scene...
However, Haas team principal Guenther Steiner is not yet ruling it out.
He said: “Knowing him, he wants to be back, but we’ll see that tomorrow when they take the bandages off because he has no idea what they look like.
“For me at the moment, the only good thing is nothing bad happened. For sure it wasn’t good but he’s safe, he’s healthy.
“The rest we’ll see tomorrow when we speak with the doctors.”
Why? Doesn't he have promised seat in HAAS for next season? He'll take part in many GPs next year.smellybeard wrote: ↑30 Nov 2020, 00:07No sane driver would turn down a GP start to win an F2 championship. If he's released by his team, he'll accept an offer - if there's an offer.fritticaldi wrote: ↑29 Nov 2020, 23:52Mick Schumacher will be involved in the F2 final race also at Sakhir where he has a 14 point lead in the Championship standings. So that makes him unavailable as well.
Ross Brawn said on SkyF1 he thinks it was a line/disconnect that was leaking the fuelHoffman900 wrote: ↑29 Nov 2020, 19:47I disagree. I’ve seen fuel cells ruptured and they look like that. It’s happen several times in amateur / minor ranks circle tracks and has happened in NASCAR where you have cars traveling at 190mph making hard impacts into barriers and with each other.PlatinumZealot wrote: ↑29 Nov 2020, 19:45Can safely say it is a leaking line that caused the fire. Fuel cell not ruptured obviously but yeah continuous flames withiught a big ass explosion suggesting continuous leaking line imo..Hoffman900 wrote: ↑29 Nov 2020, 19:35Check Mark Sutton’s IG. Looks like the fuel cell got pulled with the driver pod.
A line would be a point source.
In 2017 Gasley was released by TR to complete the SF season. Mick will race in F2, winning the championship is a big deal and chucking him into F1 at a few days notice is too much. It’s not the 1980s... The team will find someone else, probably Hulkenberg, Ferrari also have Wehrlein on their books now.smellybeard wrote: ↑30 Nov 2020, 00:07No sane driver would turn down a GP start to win an F2 championship. If he's released by his team, he'll accept an offer - if there's an offer.fritticaldi wrote: ↑29 Nov 2020, 23:52Mick Schumacher will be involved in the F2 final race also at Sakhir where he has a 14 point lead in the Championship standings. So that makes him unavailable as well.
On some of the images what looks like the fuel filler hole on the tank appears to be completely open.thestig84 wrote: ↑30 Nov 2020, 00:21Ross Brawn said on SkyF1 he thinks it was a line/disconnect that was leaking the fuelHoffman900 wrote: ↑29 Nov 2020, 19:47I disagree. I’ve seen fuel cells ruptured and they look like that. It’s happen several times in amateur / minor ranks circle tracks and has happened in NASCAR where you have cars traveling at 190mph making hard impacts into barriers and with each other.PlatinumZealot wrote: ↑29 Nov 2020, 19:45
Can safely say it is a leaking line that caused the fire. Fuel cell not ruptured obviously but yeah continuous flames withiught a big ass explosion suggesting continuous leaking line imo..
A line would be a point source.
Schumacher needs to win F2. Clear argumentation is, that the winner of F2 gets the Haas F1 seat as the winner will be out of F2. There is also nothing to win against Magnussen in this bad car within one race without simulator, etc....Mogster wrote: ↑30 Nov 2020, 00:23In 2017 Gasley was released by TR to complete the SF season. Mick will race in F2, winning the championship is a big deal and chucking him into F1 at a few days notice is too much. It’s not the 1980s... The team will find someone else, probably Hulkenberg, Ferrari also have Wehrlein on their books now.smellybeard wrote: ↑30 Nov 2020, 00:07No sane driver would turn down a GP start to win an F2 championship. If he's released by his team, he'll accept an offer - if there's an offer.fritticaldi wrote: ↑29 Nov 2020, 23:52Mick Schumacher will be involved in the F2 final race also at Sakhir where he has a 14 point lead in the Championship standings. So that makes him unavailable as well.
