The Motorsport Thread 2014

I think it was more about wanting a new challenge, Red Bull are going to be at the front for a few years yet at least.

Huzzah drinking! For like the 10th time now I am up and wide awake, thanks to getting home from a night at the pubs, and thus able to catch F1 live!

Edited by JJLehto - October 05 2014 at 02:06

Hoping for the best for Jules.  I hope to Christ he's okay.

EDIT:  Sounds like he was taken to an area hospital by ambulance. 


Edited by MillsLayne - October 05 2014 at 03:21

A sad end to what was an excellent race. I hope Bianchi is going to be OK.

Just read that Ex GP driver Andrea de Cesaris has died today in a motorbike crash in Rome. He raced through the 80's and up to 94, most notable for a difficult debut year with McLaren (in arguably one of the teams worst ever cars) in 81 that earned him the monicker de Crasheris (and put McLaren off rookies until Hamilton), for nearly winning at Spa in 83 for Alfa Romeo on the revised tracks return to the calendar and then again in 91 in Jordan's first year in F1, when he was hunting down Senna's sick McLaren only for his engine to blow near the end.

RIP Andrea.  

Yeah, not a good 24 hours for F1, past and present.  

^ That video is pretty crazy. Nothing like I expected, and I didn't really expect it to be good. It would have been a ridiculous crash even if the crane wasn't there.

Best wishes that he can survive it.

I wasn't sure what the speed was like or crash impact, (a slide, spin, what was the angle) but that was one of the most violent things I've seen. Not sure if credit to the cars today, pure luck or both, but I sincerely can't believe he survived that. 

Edited by JJLehto - October 06 2014 at 20:50

JJLehto wrote: The fact the helicopter couldn't safely take off due to weather was a bit concerning...putting aside the Jules incident, what about all the travel and work needed for an F1 race?? In such conditions.

That's rubbish that some uninformed morons have been spreading around after seeing Bianchi being taken to hospital in an ambulance rather than being airlifted. The helicopter could take off fine and did so, taking the F1 doctor ahead to the hospital. The reason they didn't airlift Bianchi is because pressure changes due to altitude can be very dangerous for head injuries, it's effectively what killed Mark Donohue in 75 as the change in air pressure caused rapid swelling in the cranium.

Yesterdays press release says he has Diffuse Axona Injury. Like many F1 fans I've been reading up on DAI and it really doesn't sound good, though at least the press release didn't describe it as sever DAI. I fear this may be career ending and that his main battle will be just to have a normal life.

I was too young to have any interest in F1 in the late 80's/early 90's but I get the feeling I would have been routing for Mansell and Berger rather than Prost and Senna, I just get the feeling that they were both villains.


Edited by sleeper - October 08 2014 at 06:27

The thing with Fuji is that it's halfway up Mt Fuji, which generates it's own rainy climate. Wet races there in the domestic championships are quite common regardless of the time of year. The thing with Japan is that it's summers are very hot and humid, certainly in south and central Honshu where Suzuka is and that summer is reserved for the European races and Canada (which can't hold a race in another season). Besides, this was only the second wet race Suzuka has ever held, after 94, it usually only rains in the Saturday.