First response was "Bloody Hell!" as cars flew everywhere.
Second response was more DIY - the stewards are using the wrong type of broom - what they need is a good soft yard broom to move all that carbon fibre.
Third thought - if you go round large shopping centres you see maintenance people with large ride on floor sweepers and vacuum cleaners. Shouldn't they have some of them on hand?
Cheers
Dave R
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T get used once every 10 years (per track)
I suppose they could move them around with the teams :-)
tim
....and they're now forming up behind the road sweeper..........
They have a fleet of road sweepers that go around just before the race, but under a safety car the sweepers would never be in the right place (or you'd need hundreds of them)...
It's usually far quicker to have a few blokes pick up the big shards and then sweep the rest by hand. Admittedly, not usually quite as much debris around as there was today!
Darren
Well, the road sweepers already have flashing lights on the roof, so that is not so far-fetched! Or maybe they should have borrowed the lights-on-hats that were used in the Olympic Opening Ceremony.
Oh, well, yes, the only snag is that before you know it someone will start a new class for racing ride on vacuums!
Brian
IMHO they made the wrong decision about the safety car.
They should have stopped the race and restarted it (using the rules appropriate to keeping people in their "earned" positions)
tim
I was thinking the same thing. They did that a year or so ago, if I remember correctly, seeing as how it happened in the first lap. Would Lewis then have been able to use a spare car, if there had been one available?
Possibly they didn't want a second incident just like the first and thought it safer to give them a rolling start.
Brabham BT46. Just fasten a bag over the back.
Mind you, then we'd have a Dyson/Henry argument between the Brabhamites and the Chaparral followers, as to whether the fan should have a separate engine or not.
Well no. The rules say that you don't stop a race that is capable of being run under a safety car.
And since the damage and wreckage - the big bits - were off track, the safety car was entirely appropriate.
The test issue is whether a race under safety car is still too dangerous.
If it is the thing gets red flagged irrespective of which lap its on.
No one was badly injured. No cars were obstructing the track. The debris was small enough to represent a danger to tyres only and that was both soon cleared, and what damage was done, was done immdeiately.
The Brabham looked far cooler, the Chaparral needs a bag over it.
In message , David WE Roberts writes
There is a massive supermarket just down the road from Spa - maybe they could rent it out
In message , D.M.Chapman writes
Stop being such a bloody realist
In message , tim..... writes
Nah - much better to give others a chance
In message , Davey writes
Fiat Uno ...
Santapod raceway (drag racing) has one of those and if you want half an hour of the most boring entertainment in the world just watch it trying to sweep the track at 0.5 miles per hour :)
More boring than watching NASCAR? (Ducks for safety).
Yes!
Finally they listened to me!
Real road sweepers out at the British Grand Prix!
Still not forming the pack up behind them, though.
Gmail post because Pan has timed this thread out.
Cheers
Dave R
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