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In the voice of BBC Newcastle commentator John Anderson: He's a lucky, lucky boy.

It was an absolute miracle he didn't die from the impact, didn't get sliced by the barrier and then managed to escape the inferno without help. As for the move which initiated the crash, it was typical Grosjean...
I tend to agree with you, but maybe Karun Chandhok's detailed review of the accident may show that Grosgen himself may not have been entirely to blame, i.e.:
- his onboard camera showed that Kimi was off the track to his left, but likely to come back on right in front of him
- he almost certainly couldn't see Kyvat behind him but quite far to his right, and thus out of the view from his righthand mirror
- it looked like a piece of carbon fibre from Stroll's car was going under his right front wheel and might well puncture the tyre and so he was trying to avoid that.

OTOH, I wouldn't have thought that he should have been voted Driver of the Day!
 
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F1 dodged a bullet today. Romain is phenominally lucky to still be alive this evening. Several drivers died in similar incidents in previous decades where crash barriers failed causing massive upper body trauma.

Fingers xd for a rapid recover for him.
 

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We were watching it live on RTL 19E. Having seen the demolished chassis on the replay I looked at the missus & said "where the f*** is the front of the car??" Hass will be throwing that chassis into a skip once the investigations have been concluded


I wouldnt be at all suprirised if Gene Hass doesnt pull the plug of the F1 team soon - the team is woefully underfunded, the cars are desperately slow and they came within an whisker of losing a driver today.
 

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I wouldnt be at all suprirised if Gene Hass doesnt pull the plug of the F1 team soon - the team is woefully underfunded, the cars are desperately slow and they came within an whisker of losing a driver today.
Well they are all signed up for next year, just have not decided on drivers yet.
The Haas F1 Team is moving on from drivers Romain Grosjean and Kevin Magnussen at season's end.
The team made the announcement early Thursday morning. Replacements for 2021 were not announced. Candidates rumored to be in the discussion for 2021 include Formula 2 drivers Mick Schumacher, Callum Ilott and Robert Shwartzman, along with top F1 free agents Nico Hulkenberg and Sergio Perez.
You may very well be correct for 2022 however the playing fields will actually be more level in 2022 when budget limits are imposed and the fact that next year is the Honda engine's final season, I do not think F1 can afford another loss of anything, it is already too small a field.
 

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I do not think F1 can afford another loss of anything, it is already too small a field.
If team numbers fall too far the remaining teams can be forced to run 3 cars.

Each team is now effectively worth $200million thanks to the dilution bond that will be demanded of new entries

 

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I was surprised to see the Armco barrier is split into 3 horizontal sections, you could see through the gaps when looking at it from a low angle.

As for Haas, I guess it depends how much Ferrari need a B team for the future rule changes and budget caps. And how much some ultra rich father will pay for an F1 seat for his son.
 

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Pietro Fittipaldi to stand in for Grosjean. In the meantime Lewis Hamilton tested positve for covid and will miss this weekend's race. I hope they give Russell a chance.
 

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Pietro Fittipaldi to stand in for Grosjean. In the meantime Lewis Hamilton tested positve for covid and will miss this weekend's race. I hope they give Russell a chance.
I think they would be foolish to ignore him in view of his excellent qualifying results for Williams this season, perhaps the Hulk could then go in the Williams
 

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Pietro Fittipaldi to stand in for Grosjean. In the meantime Lewis Hamilton tested positve for covid and will miss this weekend's race. I hope they give Russell a chance.
Much as I "like" the idea, I very much doubt that George Russell would be asked to stand in for Lewis for a number of reasons:
- he has (AFAIK) never driven the Mercedes, and thus has virtually no real knowledge of how it drives & handles, especially the "Double Axis Steering" system, the complex setups on the steering wheel, and "so on" - thus he could not do that machine "justice" (and that would also apply to "The Hulk" in either the Mercedes or the Williams cars).
- OTOH, Mercedes already has a reserve driver (TBH, I can't remember who that is) who has a lot of experience in their simulator and thus knows all those things that George understandably does not.
- The new management at Williams Racing would be very loath to let him go for even one weekend because he is "outdriving" their car and thus showing what it can do in the right hands, and they would themselves then have to call on their own reserve driver who has never driven their car "in anger", and thus with "predictable results"- and that will impact on the sponsorship that they can attract for the 2021 season and beyond.
 
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- OTOH, Mercedes already has a reserve driver (TBH, I can't remember who that is) who has a lot of experience in their simulator and thus knows all those things that George understandably does not.
Stoffel van Dorne
 

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George Russell tested for Mercedes last year, and Toto Wolff is his manager. As for DAS it isn't used during green flag racing so shouldn't be much of an issue.

I guess for Williams it depends how much money Jack Aitken paid to be the reserve driver. I doubt Hulk comes with much budget.
 

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Stoffel Van Dorne has not been in a single practice session as far as I can see since he began Formula E, so how can he be up to speed?

Added to which Roy Nissany has driven the Williams this year
 

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George Russell tested for Mercedes last year, and Toto Wolff is his manager. As for DAS it isn't used during green flag racing so shouldn't be much of an issue.

I guess for Williams it depends how much money Jack Aitken paid to be the reserve driver. I doubt Hulk comes with much budget.
The Mercedes has "changed" a bit since 2019, and I am not sure you are correct in saying that "DAS" isn't used in "green flag racing" as ISTR commentators saying that it is:confused

And if DAS isn't used during racing, then why has it been "banned" for 2021?
 

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Stoffel Van Dorne has not been in a single practice session as far as I can see since he began Formula E, so how can he be up to speed?

Added to which Roy Nissany has driven the Williams this year
OTOH, ref Stoffel: at least he has recent racing experience at a relatively high level.
 

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OTOH, ref Stoffel: at least he has recent racing experience at a relatively high level.
It is hardly formula 1 speeds, instrumentation or feel
 

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DAS is only used on the warm-up lap and during safety car periods as far as I can tell. During racing the steering wheel stays in the fully forward position. Presumably it's been banned because Ferrari International Assistance didn't like that Merc exploited a loophole that the red team couldn't :p
 

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Happy to hear that I was proven wrong :D
 

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