the flyin' scotsman

indeed, was looking forward to a sprint to the end on full wets and then......

latest is severe head injury.

LuigiVampa

Where was the safety car after Sutil's off? In my opinion the FIA was trying to hard to get the race finished and should have brought a safety car out until Sutil's car had been removed. This shouldn't have happened.

MJSpeed

^Freak situation that occured only because of the wet surface. Cranes are out there (in F1) a lot of the times. It was caused either by Bianchi himself losing a too stiffly sprung crap chassis or by hitting the same "river" that caused Sutil to go off.

The latest is that he's undergone surgery.

Ray S

Does not look good. Prayers for Jules and his family.

MJSpeed

I understand that nothing at this point is as important as Bianchi's well being, but how about some props/respect for JEV for having a monster drive from the back of the field!

He and Hulk need to be in better cars.

Bob Rouleau

Agree, great drive by Vergne - still wonder why RB chose Kyvat - money perhaps? I suspect we will see a rule change-= either no tractors (crane behind barrier as in Montreal) or automatic safety car which in retrospect should have been the case in this race. I suppose the feed I was watching ddin't show the accident because it was horrible. At first I thought it was someone behind the barrier who was hit, I could see medics doing CPR but did not notice Bianchi's car. Hope he pulls through!

DHI

DHI

Unfortunate freak accident.

Sean F

Hardly a freak accident - predictable actually

What a shame

Jim Devine

Safety car should have been out until the crane & other car was clear. Was there a local yellow in the area? Didn't see one. Hope for the best.

mikymu

There was a local yellow but as you can see from picture below the flag station was waving green right after Biachi crashed (all the corner works just stand there looked bewildered) and the whole filed was traveling at racing speed with local yellow when the crash happened.

F1 need to under take another major change after this incident. The "show must go on" mentality in the past has cost so many lives and now is much better but still need improvement. Why do we allow race speed to go on when a heavy equipment is on the track removing disable vehicle is beyond me. Most US bases race body will have the whole field down to a crawl when trucks or heavy equipment are on race track. There is a very good reason why a race car went off on certain section of the track - and the statistic is dramatically higher for another car to go off at the same spot.

Here is the mot recent update on Bianchi's injury http://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/bi...-crash-emerge/

We all wish Bianchi and his family the best and a speedy recovery

jbossolo

Excellent post, mikymu. Prayers go out to Bianchi and his family.

Circuit Motorsports

F1 does have a rule regarding local yellows and looks at sector times IIRC. The problem is it that rain races are a different beast.

Ray S

I'm not sure that is a valid criticism. F1's safety record over the last several seasons is very good.

Simply put F1 already has rules on the books that require drivers to not employ "race speed" through local yellows and they monitor driver times to enforce it.

Details here;

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/113153

Der ABT

that flag station is for the track ahead not behind...if its still fill course green it should be green...aka local yellow...yellow flag leading up to the incident...once clear...green racing....
was that pic before or after he went in there, remember he was the second car in there..


Very scary though, almost reminds me of that accident the girl had with the loading door .....with cars this low there needs to be a though about protecting drivers from driving under things like that.

Thoughts go out to him