ONLY CLICK WHEN YOU WANT TO SEE THE IMPACT
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[EDIT] Nevermind, thomas posted a gif meanwhile. All I can say is hoooly crap!
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ONLY CLICK WHEN YOU WANT TO SEE THE IMPACT
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Yeah, apparently the people in the right places are working HARD to keep the footage of the impact with a green waved flag under full track yellow off the web and media.
As of right now my link is still working.
I get redirected on bones link, thus I will leave this here, and just say: HOLY SHIT. That was no slow "sliding under" or "into" the crane - he LIFTED that motherfucker.
Also: GREEN flag? What the actual fuck?
http://gfycat.com/HiddenSleepyIceblueredtopzebra
Also: GREEN flag? What the actual fuck?
Also was it a full course yellow at that point? Looks like the green flag is being waved after the incident zone so that would be correct.
Making a tractor like that which weighs god knows how many tons move like that is scary.
The most obvious step to review is the timing of the crane intervention : why was it release before all the traffic had joined up behind the safety car.
I do think that the if a crane is needed, if it's wet, the sc should come out.
I doubt there is need for it when it's dry.
I get redirected on bones link, thus I will leave this here, and just say: HOLY SHIT. That was no slow "sliding under" or "into" the crane - he LIFTED that motherfucker.
Also: GREEN flag? What the actual fuck?
http://gfycat.com/HiddenSleepyIceblueredtopzebra
Was it a 910H? Motorsport.com is claiming the model was "similar to" model 586C, at 38,450 pounds. I don't know enough about the vehicles to say myself, though.
This incident on Suzuka brings a lot of questions in the safety area:
1. Why on earth they are still using Cat or JCB as recovery vehicles still? When in street circuits they are using the massive cranes to pull out the stranded cars from the track. That should be mandatory in all circuits
2. Why Charlie Whiting, when the Sutil incident happened one lap before, dictated a FCY with safety car? More to protect the marshalls and the JCB that we're in the side of the graveltrap
3. Yeah, the conditions worsened a bit just before the Sutil off (See Button pitting for Full Wets, alas the rest waited a couple of laps to change for Inters again). But it wasn't Fuji 08 or Malaysia 09 where the puddles of standing water were heavy in some parts of the track, causing the cars to acquaplane in slow speed.
Those and many questions are still unanswered. And it will be a long long time
Forza Jules
God it's just...in this day and age we're still making so many mistakes in safety.
If it is raining and a car goes off in an area where a crane is necessary to retrieve it, if the corner is deemed to be hazardous because of likelihood of rivers running across it then the FIA should not hesitate to pull a FCY and call out the safety car. Simple as that.
And that's not hindsight talking, as soon as I saw Sutil hit the barrier I thought that is going to need a safety car because I know how dangerous that corner is.