F1 2019 season discussion and chat.

[redspark]

RIPHubert.

 

[Agent_Smith]

geez thats terrible they will probably start slowing down that corner soon, heard they clock about 300 through there so can only imagine the impact at that speed

I really hope not. It's a tragic and unfathomable loss, but this what the drivers do. They will be the first ones to tell you that the danger is a part of what they enjoy about the sport. Sanitizing every dodgy corner on the calendar (think Maggots/ Becketts complex at Silverstone or 130R at Suzuka) will completely dilute the spectacle. This (like Jules Bianchi) was a freak occurrence. I'd wager he was fine until he got T-boned by Correa. That can happen anywhere, at any track, on any corner.

 

[Icemanbrfc]

I really hope not. It's a tragic and unfathomable loss, but this what the drivers do. They will be the first ones to tell you that the danger is a part of what they enjoy about the sport. Sanitizing every dodgy corner on the calendar (think Maggots/ Becketts complex at Silverstone or 130R at Suzuka) will completely dilute the spectacle. This (like Jules Bianchi) was a freak occurrence. I'd wager he was fine until he got T-boned by Correa. That can happen anywhere, at any track, on any corner.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but they come over and down the hill at Spa. So they don't really see what is happening in front of them, until they come around the bend right?

 

[caroper]

That close up says it all. I went out for dinner after posting that there had been a crash, just got home and saw this.
I said one word beginning with F and sat in shock with a tear in the eye. That was surgical, its lucky that one of them survived. A sad day in motorsport.

I would give Icemanbrfc a thumbs up for posting it, but didn't want to imply that I like the video, so here is a metaphorical one.

 

[caroper]

The entire IndyCar paddock taking a moment of silence for Anthoine Hubert.

 

[chromedome]

What a horrible day, RIP Anthoine.

 

[D4N]

Analysis of the accident:

 

[Naks]

 

[Icemanbrfc]

Analysis of the accident:

Whoa.. Looked like Hubert was crushed badly looking at this vid. That impact by Correa was smack in the middle, then goes over him as well to make matters worse. Sad day indeed. RIP Young man

 

[Naks]

 

[Icemanbrfc]

Oh yes, what time does the race start lol

 

[Hamster]

Oh yes, what time does the race start lol

17:10 like most European races.

 

[Icemanbrfc]

17:10 like most European races.

Looks like a Dave reply this lol

 

[Hamster]

Looks like a Dave reply this lol

Nah, it's all Hamsteranis... sê wat jou naam is, da da da da daaaa-nis

 

[Willie Trombone]

Oh yes, what time does the race start lol

14:50 AFAIK. It's in this thread a page or four back.

 

[Hamster]

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[caroper]

Final Grid with all engine penalties applied:

 

[caroper]

Nice article from Andrew Benson - BBC

Anthoine Hubert Formula 2 death: Why the motorsport 'family' races on

By Andrew Benson
Chief F1 writer at Spa-Francorchamps

Spa-Francorchamps, where this accident happened, is one of the world's greatest, most historic, fastest, most challenging and, yes, most dangerous race tracks. To a man, the drivers look forward to races there more than those at any but a mere handful of circuits around the world. But they don't do it lightly. They do it in full awareness of the risks they are taking.

Saturday night, over dinner with friends and colleagues, the 20 F1 drivers will contemplate the loss of a man who some of them knew, some of them had raced against, and of whom some were only aware as someone who could very well, one day soon, be one of them.

On Sunday, they will wake up and drive into Spa, and go about their usual pre-race preparations. They will do it with seriousness, sobriety and an iron determination to carry on with business as usual.

Then, at 3.10pm local time, they will watch five red lights come on one by one and then go out, and within a few seconds they will be racing nose to tail and perhaps even side by side at close to 200mph over the exact spot where, less than 24 hours earlier, a colleague paid the ultimate price.

The sport they love brings them incredible highs and, as on Saturday, awful lows. The combination of all that is - whatever one may think of it - what makes it so thrillingly, awfully, terribly, tragically, special.

They are truly not as other men.

 

[Hamster]

Geez, standing up during lap 19, people asking to cancel the race, others asking to make the track safer and some thinking they need to write an article about how F1 drivers can carry on business as usual after a guy most didn't personally know died the previous day in a different race...

Come on people, allow the family and friends to morn and the rest of you shut up and enjoy the race. If you're emotionally overwhelmed go see a psychiatrist or consult your physician.

 

[Sinbad]

Geez, standing up during lap 19, people asking to cancel the race, others asking to make the track safer and some thinking they need to write an article about how F1 drivers can carry on business as usual after a guy most didn't personally know died the previous day in a different race...

Come on people, allow the family and friends to morn and the rest of you shut up and enjoy the race. If you're emotionally overwhelmed go see a psychiatrist or consult your physician.

Virtue signaling on an epic scale