Jules Bianchi passes away following accident at 2014 Formula 1 Japanese Grand Prix

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There's a site with a dozen pictures or so. No blood like someone else said, but the top section of the car is missing and what looks to be the the rear wing directly under the truck.

I hope he's going to be ok, thoughts go to his friends and family.
 
alonsof1fan91
Thats the pic I am talking about: (nothing graphic, yet xou see the wrecked car) https://mobile.twitter.com/lincoln_salazar/status/518689841744056320

looks like his glove to me
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Not Bianchis glove!
The glove-inside in the picture is beige-colored. Bianchis glove is black/silver on the inside.
You also don't see any red color around the fingers.
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KinLM
Usually race directors move races forward/back in start times to avoid heavy downpours and keep drivers safe for this very reason.
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They did delay the start of the race due to the conditions. Typically, rains are always heaviest early to mid-afternoon around here. And the weather did clear up long enough for most of the race. At the end, during the crash, the race had to be red flagged permanently not because of the rain, but because of the darkness.

alonsof1fan91
Yes, I wondered why they didn't call the SC the moment the crane had to enter the track.
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This... this is the long and short of it. It wasn't about the conditions, but rather the way they handled the recovery. But:

tomhart9
But it's easy to say that knowing what has happened
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After this, expect them to become a bit more inclined towards releasing the SC for recoveries in conditions like these. As others have said... it should have been done... but given the conditions had improved and had only started to deteriorate slightly again... perhaps they weren't of the mindset that it was needed.
 
SSN HQ's Craig Slater with the latest:

"Jules Bianchi is being treated at Mie University Hospital, which is quite a sizeable teaching institution. He was taken there by ambulance rather than the medical helicopter which, contrary to reports, was quite capable of taking off. It was for medical reasons that he was taken by ambulance.

"We dont have any further update on his condition other than that he was unconscious when he was transferred.

"Eyewitnesses have told me that Bianchi's car struck the recovery vehicle and went underneath the medical vehicle."
 
I think they decided against a safety car after the first crash since it was very close to an exit. The calculated that they would be able to clear the area very quickly. That Bianchi crashed at the exact same spot was just extremely unlucky.
 
Vinylshark
Not Bianchis glove!
The glove-inside in the picture is beige-colored. Bianchis glove is black/silver on the inside.
You also don't see any red color around the fingers.
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Thanks for the clarification, I was worried that he held his hands next to his helmet like Perez did few years ago when he crashed at Monaco.
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Vinylshark
What injuries could Bianchi have that would make taking the helicopter to dangerous for him?
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This is pure speculation, but pressure changes in a helicopter could impact on a brain injury?
 
hsv
This is pure speculation, but pressure changes in a helicopter could impact on a brain injury?
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Helis dont fly so high that the pressure would be that great.

You can get more pressure change from going to a warm to a cool spot.
 
Tesla
Sorry, moder- haha, oh wait. In none of these pictures can you actually see the driver, or any sort of blood/gore/etc around. For the time being, it's just another crashed car.
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You don't have to be a mod to ask for decency. Never said they were AUP violating, it's just pictures of him being worked on by the medical team are at the very least extremely tasteless in a situation such as this one.
 
Vinylshark
What injuries could Bianchi have that would make taking the helicopter to dangerous for him?
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It's the weather conditions that's making any helicopter travel dangerous. Nothing to do with Bianchi's condition.

The Twitter photo shown has the engine air box knocked off the structure. Doesn't bode well for his head.
 
TheCracker
It's the weather conditions that's making any helicopter travel dangerous. Nothing to do with Bianchi's condition.
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It's been confirmed that the heli was able to take off and land, and it was medical reasons restricting them to an ambulance.
 
Well to be fair, we need to be updated on Bianchi's situation, so as tasteless as these pictures are, there are plenty of people who share my concerns.
 
TheCracker
The Twitter photo shown has the engine air box knocked off the structure. Doesn't bode well for his head.
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New Safety Regultions for next year perhaps, improved structural integrity of air intake/rollcage?
 
Kenocar
Well to be fair, we need to be updated on Bianchi's situation, so as tasteless as these pictures are, there are plenty of people who share my concerns.
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Links to pictures are fine, as long as they fall within the AUP, but don't wrap them in img tags therefore forcing everyone to look at them. Leave them to be clicked.
 
Grayfox
New Safety Regultions for next year perhaps, improved structural integrity of air intake/rollcage?
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It's already happened in GP3 this year, with Dallara recalling all the cars to improve the rollhoop integrity.
 
According to Tobias Grüner (Journalist) the japanse police is confiscating what is left of Bianchis car.
(I would post the tweet here, but to be honest I don't know how, since I don't have Twitter).
 
Vinylshark
According to Tobias Grüner (Journalist) the japanse police is confiscating what is left of Bianchis car.
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Hmm... That sounds pretty bleak. Having the police take over for the FIA doesn't sound very good.
 
Kenocar
Hmm... That sounds pretty bleak. Having the police take over for the FIA doesn't sound very good.
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It is the way the japanese police are.

When a japan air 123 crashed due to loss of hydraulics.
Instead of the aviation crash experts going there and looking through all the evidence, the japanese police were in charge as it was considered a "crime" and they had jurisdiction even they know nothing about aviation.
 
Grayfox
New Safety Regultions for next year perhaps, improved structural integrity of air intake/rollcage?
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There's always going to be a way for a driver to take a direct hit to the head in an open cockpit car, it's merely a question of probabilities.

Besides, there's still the deceleration issue. You could make the roll bar out of unbreakablium, but going from 150mph to zero in 2 inches is still going to kill. If something is coming in at head height the only thing the roll bar/airbox can realistically do is deflect it over the top of the car. Stopping it is mostly out of the question. Obviously that's not going to work if the incoming object is a JCB.

I'm not sure how much there is to be done in terms of modifying the cars to be survivable in that sort of accident. The time would be better spend outfitting the JCBs with some sort of deflection shield so that the car simply can't go underneath them. The first thing that springs to mind is bumper cars, but I'm sure it can be done better than that.

But if the big hunk of metal is surrounded by a foot of energy absorbing rubber at a height designed to interact with the safety structures of an incoming car, that's a big step up from a big hunk of metal with pointy bits at head height.
 
Just saw a user comment, on a Live-Ticker from a motorsport website, where he says that Mika Salo said, in the finnish television, that Bianchi took a hard hit to the head.

I don't know how true it is, but Mika Salo was the former race driver stewart for today, so he could look at all footage.
 
Imari
I'm not sure how much there is to be done in terms of modifying the cars to be survivable in that sort of accident. The time would be better spend outfitting the JCBs with some sort of deflection shield so that the car simply can't go underneath them. The first thing that springs to mind is bumper cars, but I'm sure it can be done better than that.
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I am thinking of metal skirts that stick out and point downward at 45*
Kinda like this.
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