2014 Formula One Thread

[LostSol]

Originally Posted by DLSTR

Nice shot of Felipe here. The F1 cars are not the best looking group this year, but the Williams is very very nice overall.

Hell yeah I love the Williams throwback livery this year!

[alcheng]

We've so many talks about the differences between F1 and Indy: cars, technologies, tracks, etc etc.....

and there's this topic, I believe we haven't mentioned/compared in here before...


The trackside safety and medical support between the two leagues.

and to my surprises, the differences is huge......

and when I say "huge", it IS "huge"....


way back at 1989, Gerhard Berger's Ferrari crashed into Tamburello at full speed and the whole car burst into fire.

If you look at the video, the Ferrari crashed into the wall @ 0:06, burst into fire @ 0:13, the medical car arrived in 20 secs, the flames was extinguished completely @ 0:37, which is 24 secs since the 1st flame. @ 0:45, which is about 40 secs after the crash, he is already been removed from the cockpit, lying on the ground and taken care by the doctors.





1994 Imola, Barrichello's crash. He crashed at about 0:03 in the video, whole bunch of marshals arrived within 12 secs, professor Sid Watkins was already beside Barrichello only 33 secs after the crash, and he got removed from the cockpit in 5 minutes and had first-aid trackside.





Indy cars, nowadays, 2013, Dario Franchitti, got squeezed by Sato and his car flies into the fence and did some 360s.

That happened at about 0:20 in the video, 20 secs after this 3 cars crash, you see one single marshal walking around the site with 1 extinguisher. not until some 70secs later, that marshal walked to Franchitti's car and check things out, 1 minute 30 secs later you see another marshal walked out onto the track to, also, check things out.

Not until @ 1:57 mark, which is some 97sec after the crash, 1 kinda medical car(?) arrived the scene.







25 years ago, if you crash an F1 into the wall and burst into flames, you'll get rescued within 60 secs.

20 years ago, if you crash an F1 into the wall and flipped, you'll have a doctor and whole bunch of marshals right beside you within 30 secs.

2013, if you crash an Indy car into the wall, you'll have to sit in the cockpit for about 75 secs to wait for someone to look at you, and you will have to wait for a total of.... 105 secs to have someone to finally come by to try to get you out from the cockpit.





different league, different people, different standard...



yup, they are just...... different.

[DLSTR]

Preview 10: Spanish Grand Prix | Planet F1 | Formula One | Features

Alcheng great post and data! Bottom line dont crash!

[alcheng]

Originally Posted by DLSTR

Preview 10: Spanish Grand Prix | Planet F1 | Formula One | Features

Alcheng great post and data! Bottom line dont crash!

I was going through some videos in youtube and the Franchitti's one shows up, I've never watched it before and I know this is the one which cost his career, thus I clicked in and I was stunned by how slow and little the reaction of the trackside support.

Then I think about I've never seen such a low-class reaction from those in F1.....

thus my post...