Odd how you can see the wheels lock on the gravel then.
Judging by the tyre marks show in the
? what?
You Are joking? Those cars will do 100mph into a solid concrete wall and the driver will get out, shaken, but not hurt. He hit about 6 layers of tyres after a 100meters of gravel.. nothing at all.
That *was* the incident of note. Not the so called 'high speed crash as he hit the barriers at XXXmph'
The whole point of my post is the BBC never said 'was hit on the head by a piece of debris at 150mph. They said 'crashed into the barriers at high speed' as if that was the cause of the damage..
I.e. instead of reporting it as a one in a million chance, they twisted it into a Lesson In The Dangers of Speed For you Children Out There.,
I have followed motor racing for at least 25 years and although tyres have killed before, this is the first time I have ever seen a random piece of metal hit someone in a race or practice. The nearest was Senna, whose helmet was punctured by a bit of smashed car.
The beeb leapt on it to make a political point, not to report it for what it was, one of the most freakish accidents ever. And as I tried typo point out, FAR more common on our debris littered roads, than on a racetrack where a lot of care is taken to screw cars together properly.
Yes, the tyre marks were obviously ABS (I doubt if he had much control over his braking technique) and in a straight line. Probably just a reflex action to hit the brakes.
If you want to separate out the car hitting the tyres from the start of the accident then that's up to you. I regard the entire incident as the crash. I suppose you separate the death of a climber falling from the fact he slipped too? "He didn't die because he fell, he died because he stopped too quick"
I also notice that you have now become a crash injuries expert. I suppose you have lots of experience with how a man with a fractured skull suffers injuries when he then hits a tyre wall.
And I said, I have followed motor racing for many years. There has been a lot of discussion about crashing and injury in that time. Much of it very well informed and technical.
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