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WiredKiwi

Good riddance. Can't be gone soon enough IMPO. Wherever the guy has landed, suddenly the team slips into mediocre mediocrity. And mediocre mediocrity is the worst kind of mediocrity. ;) I'd go further. DUring his time at both Williams and McLaren, Michael was dismal with only occasional glimpses of...

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davidheath461 wrote:When Massa did this interview, was there a violin playing in the background?

yeah, this

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Its normal for this sort of accident to have an investigation regardless or not if the driver dies or not. Similarly "near misses" are investigated in the airline industry, as though the near miss was a hit and hundreds died. Of course in a near miss no one would die, but the incident is serious en...

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My two cents on GP2... Jolyon Palmer is not the most gifted driver in GP2, but I do think there is an argument that he deserves to be in F1. At the very least, he is better than Leimer and far better than Valsecchi. Those guys arrived in GP2 and stuck around for a few years in the upper-midfield, w...

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http://www.fia.com/news/fia-accident-panel So, separate to other safety panels, team panels and commissions etc. Interesting mix of panelists too. Thoughts? I'm bizarrely reassured by the presence of Brawn - he seems avuncular yet utterly perfectionist, so I'd be inclined to assume nothing would esc...

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just seen the drivers' press conference before the Japanese GP. Bianchi talking about his season so far "I did my best and I have no regrets".

Damn.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb1u_Yc6eyA

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I am so glad to hear the family liked the drivers 'circle of solidarity' at the weekend, and that they appreciate the fan and public messages. Now is the time to let them know that their beloved son is very much a beloved son of the sport too.

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what happened to Jules bianchi was a freak accident. All accidents are freak events that no one anticipates or has planned for. That is why we call them accidents. No it was not a freak accident. It was a repeat of an accident that has happened THREE times in the last 20 years (Brundle at Suzuka 94...

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Having seen the excellent piece Brundle did on safety (which I believe is going to be repeated shortly) I can't believe how restrained he's being - he's an incredible gent. He's been terrified of just this accident for years, and has been as vocal as he can be about it too. I'm sure he'd always want...

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Blackhander wrote:I was just about to say the same thing. 5th safety car and a red flag not even half race distance yet. This is brutal.

Also I missed the first 35 or so laps driving home this morning. Has anyone collected the annual kangaroo yet?

Yep - Youlden.

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Ouf I am pretty nervy about those flags now after Suzuka - That is a huge accident Pye has had, and I hope that those cars behind are really respecting the double waved yellows til the SC picks them up. Such a bad place for a car to be parked in.

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Nah, the Aussies must be told that their treatment of illegal immigrants isn't acceptable. According to Dr Jones, none of us can enjoy our lives until everything in the world happens the way he wants it. Dick....tators I think Blinky is the only who has picked up on exactly where I was going with t...

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Clearly this race should not be held. The media contracts,circuit sponsors were signed up before the invasion and shooting down of an airliner.Clearly this is a case of greed over principle.From the sponsors point of view they do not want to be associated with politics and would rather withdrawal f...

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Pretty exciting to see Gizzy on pole

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Maybe Bernie's finally going soft. Thars what I take from lowdens comments. If this happened to any other team or if it happened last year. Bernie would of thrown the book at them. Contracts and everything. Anyone wanna put a tenna on that bernie will secretly close the loophole for next year. Are ...

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For everyone who thinks Marussia should have run a second car, watch this starting at 9:30 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q4atJknYEw

Graeme Lowdon explains clearly why they came to the decision.

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Good grief, I find myself cheering Max Chilton on instead of just the usual amusement at how slow he is. Jules cannot come back soon enough!

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Davidbl wrote:Well if anyone at my company was to die, they would have to arrange cover immediately, and would have to advertise the vacancy to cover the job. Would that be showing "respect" or not?

Marussia don't have to. It's sport, not essential services.

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"Jules’ car crew have built a second car, which has been scrutineered and is ready to race... the team and their cars will carry the familiar ‘#JB17’ graphic, to ensure that although Jules is not with them in Sochi this weekend, he is, nonetheless, racing on with the Marussia F1 Team." Just lovely, ...

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A very heartfelt statement from Marussia on why they are choosing to run only one car. http://www.marussiaf1team.com/news/1037/

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Just seen the pics of the track and facilities that Lotus have posted on Twitter. It all looks pretty amazing and impressive.

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Fiki wrote:

Vettel: "When I'm officially presented, will I have to say I want Ferrari to be my last team?"
Alonso: "No, they don't force you to. But it will be..."

Ooooh - clever!

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How about that it depends on the situation to decide if you put out a safety car or not. Regarding the Japaniese Grand Prix situation, I don't believe for one minute that the removal of Sutil's car required a safety car. If was well off track. There was no debris on the race track. The driver was u...

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I don't know. It just feels strange. I've never felt like this in F1 before and that's probably why. I find myself at work and all the sudden I'm just there thinking 'come on Jules get through this'. No celebrity incident as ever bothered me before. Even after the 7/7 bombings which happened and ca...

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Blinky McSquinty wrote:After Japan, my heart isn't in it.

As usual I will watch it, but right now, for the first ime in years, I'm not excited or eagerly anticipating the weekend.

Exactly how I feel Blinky. I can't even imagine what the drivers and teams are like if we the fans are feeling like this.

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It may be a business, but it's not delivering an essential service. The drivers are not direction control units. No business should operate in a time of trauma at the expense of its people. There is a world of difference between Massa and Schumis accidents and Bianchi's. The former pair we knew qui...

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It may be a business, but it's not delivering an essential service. The drivers are not direction control units. No business should operate in a time of trauma at the expense of its people. There is a world of difference between Massa and Schumis accidents and Bianchi's. The former pair we knew quic...

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Russia:

Nope, can't do it. Still too upset about Bianchi. I'll take a DNS on this round I think.

Tip 'o the hat to everyone for the high scores in the last round though.

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In Jules ' case it's not just deceleration. His head surely nicked the tractor enough for deceleration but as he passed it I'm sure his head whipped about a few times before once again experiencing deceleration at the endpoint of the accident. I'd guess his brain bounced around a good bit which mak...

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Richard Hammond suffered DAI and had a remarkably good outcome. Rally driver Possum Bourne suffered DAI and never regained consciousness. So any outcome is still possible. However the earlier statement that said "The CT scan shows that he has suffered a severe head injury" is concerning, especially ...

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I can't remember where I saw it but I read somewhere on one of the F1 news sites that Bianchi's car had lifted over the kerbs and thus very little speed had been scrubbed, and he arrived at the tractor at close to the same speed he left the track at. It would have been a big hit into the barriers an...

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As we know the sheer violence of the impact that killed Senna was enough to kill the Brazilian, combined with that suspension part of course. No, it was only the suspension piece which killed Senna - had that part gone an inch or so higher, then Ayrton would have stepped out of the car bruised but ...

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My heart just aches for his family as that is a desperately horrible journey to be making, and it sounds like travel is quite disrupted as well. I just hope they can get to Jules' beside as soon as they can to all be together. It certainly would be unfair of us to get updates while his family is not...

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I think they (Marussia) should do whatever they feel is in the collective best interests of the team, the Bianchi family, and of course Jules himself. They will know better than anyone if Jules would want them to run both cars, one car or none at all, and the team and the family can decide based on ...

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When you have a patient with brain injury you never transport them with heli or a plane (if there is alternative), because low air pressure on high altitude can cause higher blood pressure in a brain vessels as some of them may rupture and make an injury more serious. Sorry for mistakes, you get th...

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Sky Sport News confirming Bianchi taken to the closest hospital, a university teaching hospital. The transfer by road was for medical reasons.

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Different people look at the pictures differently. Some may take some kind of morbid pleasure out of it, whereas other have been following this sport for 20 or 30 years and simply want to analyse what they see, understand the failings, and form an opinion on how something like this could be avoided...

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Confirmed on Sky that the road transfer was an FIA choice. Grim news I believe. Seems to be medical reasons, due to pressure in the air No, that is pure speculation on the part of the commentators.[/quote] It was confirmed on Sky it was for medical reasons[/quote] I'm watching that too, and that's ...

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On finnish tv they said that the helicopter was flying just as they started the pricecermony Yup, there were pictures of it too. If getting to a tertiary/specialist hospital was essential, it looked like the chopper was in fact in service for that. Yet they are off to a secondary hospital via road ...

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On finnish tv they said that the helicopter was flying just as they started the pricecermony Yup, there were pictures of it too. If getting to a tertiary/specialist hospital was essential, it looked like the chopper was in fact in service for that. Yet they are off to a secondary hospital via road ...

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