Collosal crash at today's Austrian F3

[rlw]

Funny that no-one has commented on the shockingly poor driving of the bloke with two thirds of the car off the circuit through the corner and driving at full race pace into a cloud of dust.

[Mr_Thyroid]

I was more concerned by the guy rolling back onto the track. First rule of safe motor racing - don't roll back.

[Vocal Minority]

rlw said:

Funny that no-one has commented on the shockingly poor driving of the bloke with two thirds of the car off the circuit through the corner and driving at full race pace into a cloud of dust.

I tend to agree, but I seem to remember almost universal praise for Kimi Raikonnen when he kept the pedal to the boards through a cloud of engine smoke atop eau rouge one time.

Where does one draw the line?

[Allyc85]

Huge crash in British F3 today too!

https://youtu.be/TZKqGBpSe_g



https://twitter.com/PaddockScout/status/7366757710...

Edited by Allyc85 on Saturday 28th May 23:40

[MartG]

Onboard video from the British F3 crash at Oulton yesterday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHE6v6mj600

[Eric Mc]

That is MIGHTY. I don't remember so many wheel tangling accidents in the past. Are drivers now just unable to sense when someone is right beside them? Are the high cockpit sides (a supposed safety feature) the root cause of so many of these accidents?

[marshalla]

Eric Mc said:

That is MIGHTY. I don't remember so many wheel tangling accidents in the past. Are drivers now just unable to sense when someone is right beside them? Are the high cockpit sides (a supposed safety feature) the root cause of so many of these accidents?

Or are they so confident in the survival features of the cars that they are willing to push the limits even further than they would have done in the past? (or are major accidents so rare that they don't believe they can come to any real harm any more?)

[Eric Mc]

I'm sure that affects their judgement too.

It all points to the theory that making the cars safer makes the drivers more careless.

[FourWheelDrift]

Looked like the passing car that got flipped was in front of the car that turned in on it, which got a mini-tank slapper on out of Old Hall corner and was slow so should have been aware a car behind would be going quicker as well and I see he has been handed 4 penalty points and race exclusion.