2016 Rolex Australian Grand Prix

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-Fred-
It's the way the car stopped so brutally and suddently that scares me the most...
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Yup, three things happening all in one accident makes this such a horrible crash: the hard hit into the concrete wall, the rapid flipping, and the sudden stop at the end.
 
Bo
This incident is a message to those who want safety measures repealed, or think that motorsport is "too safe".

There's no such thing as too safe.

I don't enjoy watching drivers have potentially fatal accidents, and I don't ever want to see drivers getting injured, or worse, in preventable incidents. No true motorsport fan should want that.

The strive for safety should never end. This is the ultimate example of why that is.
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Agreed. Bonus points if anyone remembers Jules Bianchi.....
 
No fault from Guttieriez, the sqeaky American says so. It was "a squeeze".

Funny that, looked like an air crash from where I was sitting.
 
-Fred-
It's the way the car stopped so brutally and suddenly that scares me the most...
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A stop that fast in a normal road car would most likely kill someone, it is is the G forces that cause the most issues, the way these cars can absorb these G forces is amazing.
 
Just before this crash I was about to say that with all the tyre problems it was going to give Perez a chance to get into the points with his amazing tyre saving skills
 
prisonermonkeys
Ted Kravitz announces that the red flag is good for Hamilton. Martin Brundle immediately points out that it's bad for Hamilton.
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He may have been confused there as the safety car would have helped Lewis out but then it immediately became a red which maroons Lewis in midfield.
 
FrzGT
"You may not having a desire to see people crash" - One of the sticky thread in this subforum.
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He doesn't have a desire, the crash happened he didn't ask for it, but now he just wants to see a gif of what happened that he didn't ask for, since the driver is safe. Now if he asked to see another driver have that crash like Alonso did then you'd be making sense.
 
Have to say, when I saw that there was a second car there and there was a driver crawling out of it, I was expecting the worst.
 
LMSCorvetteGT2
He doesn't have a desire, the crash happened he didn't ask for it, but now he just wants to see a gif of what happened that he didn't ask for, since the driver is safe. Now if he asked to see another driver have that crash like Alonso did then you'd be making sense.
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In addition, it's not like sems asked for a replay/gif of Tom Pryce's accident in 1977.

Haryanto may be out of the race.
 
prisonermonkeys
Ted Kravitz announces that the red flag is good for Hamilton. Martin Brundle immediately points out that it's bad for Hamilton.
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They really should restrict Ted Kravitz to those Dennis-Norden-style clipboard-waving monologues on the website. Then I wouldn't have to hear him interrupting races at all. Or just at all.

Squeaky American blames Guttierez .vs. Alonso on the lack of pit communication. Wrong series, Squeaky :)
 
LMSCorvetteGT2
He broke quite early, Alonso switched not expecting that. I'm not saying it's his fault but his race form hasn't always been something others envy, not sure why he felt to brake so early.
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Esteban was running slow since race start so it probably was more to do with that then anything else.
 
FrzGT
"You may not having a desire to see people crash" - One of the sticky thread in this subforum.
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You're mis-translating, that means that you may not express a wish that Driver A, B or C is going to have a crash. See OMG Fails Funnies thread for more info.
 

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