car running into safety car

noshpit · Post by **noshpit** » 18 May 2009, 09:15

the first lap of the 2nd race in the wtcc in pau was utter mayhem , (bit like spanish gp but better) the safety car got c ompletely totaled

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYO4yPmf5AI

also the track looks like an okay street circuit - only problem for f1 would be that it would need to be widened by about 10 times its current width

Captain Hammer · Post by **Captain Hammer** » 18 May 2009, 09:20

I was just about to link o this when I got distracted by the thread on wheel tethers.

Wo's driving the safety car, I wonder? Taki Inoue?

razta · Post by **razta** » 18 May 2009, 11:55

Remember when Hiedfeld Ripped the door off the medical car in Brazil in 2002? - Friday Practice i think it was - it was brilliant cos it was the Near side door, proper reject quality considering he went on the INSIDE of the MC and completely RIPPED iT! :lol:

Post by **Nuppiz** » 18 May 2009, 11:58

Captain Hammer wrote:I was just about to link o this when I got distracted by the thread on wheel tethers.

Wo's driving the safety car, I wonder? Taki Inoue?

More like who let the safety car go on the track right in front of the racers? :lol:

Nin13 · Post by **Nin13** » 18 May 2009, 12:02

razta wrote:Remember when Heidfeld Ripped the door off the medical car in Brazil in 2002? - Friday Practice i think it was - it was brilliant cos it was the Near side door, proper reject quality considering he went on the INSIDE of the MC and completely RIPPED iT!

Here it is-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myKAMBD3cCo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsrLK1WNZCE

Alexander · Post by **Alexander** » 18 May 2009, 12:46

If you enjoy big safety car crashes (without serious injuries), check out this video from the Dutch Supercar Challenge, where I'm a mechanic on the car I use as an avatar.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHf3qgmvMNc

Yannick · Post by **Yannick** » 18 May 2009, 13:46

Isn't it meant to be a safety car and not merely called that? Picking up the leader of the race surely is meant to be something else than what the driver of this safety car did.

RejectSteve · Post by **RejectSteve** » 18 May 2009, 15:16

I don't know who drives the safety car in WTCC, but whoever he is definately needs to be reconsidered. Sure, he needs to be ahead of the leaders, but to come all the way across the circuit is a bit much, especially considering how much room there was going to the first corner. The resultant race suspension due to the loss of the safety car was the right decision, but smashing the safety car in that manner, along with Franz Engstler's self-owned BMW 320si, is amateur at best.

Henrique · Post by **Henrique** » 18 May 2009, 17:03

razta wrote:Remember when Hiedfeld Ripped the door off the medical car in Brazil in 2002? - Friday Practice i think it was - it was brilliant cos it was the Near side door, proper reject quality considering he went on the INSIDE of the MC and completely RIPPED iT!

A curious fact: the driver of that medical car was Alex Ribeiro, a Brazilian F1 reject who drove for Hesketh, March and Fittipaldi, but never scored a point

LionZoo · Post by **LionZoo** » 18 May 2009, 19:05

Who on the current grid would be most likely to run into the safety car?

Post by **Nuppiz** » 18 May 2009, 19:24

LionZoo wrote:Who on the current grid would be most likely to run into the safety car?

Piquet.

Bleu · Post by **Bleu** » 18 May 2009, 20:28

Nuppiz wrote:
LionZoo wrote:Who on the current grid would be most likely to run into the safety car?

Piquet.

Piquet isn't going to be anywhere near the safety car. Remember safety car is just ahead of race leader.

Pedro_Diniz · Post by **Pedro_Diniz** » 18 May 2009, 21:13

Bleu wrote:
Nuppiz wrote:
LionZoo wrote:Who on the current grid would be most likely to run into the safety car?

Piquet.

Piquet isn't going to be anywhere near the safety car. Remember safety car is just ahead of race leader.

... it's also likely that he'd have been the reason for deploying it.

Popi_Larrauri · Post by **Popi_Larrauri** » 18 May 2009, 22:16

Henrique wrote:
razta wrote:Remember when Hiedfeld Ripped the door off the medical car in Brazil in 2002? - Friday Practice i think it was - it was brilliant cos it was the Near side door, proper reject quality considering he went on the INSIDE of the MC and completely RIPPED iT!

A curious fact: the driver of that medical car was Alex Ribeiro, a Brazilian F1 reject who drove for Hesketh, March and Fittipaldi, but never scored a point

And even more, in his F1 driver days, he painted in the car the tag "Cristo salva" (Jesus saves)... well, it seems that he had an extra hand that day on 2002... Half second later and he would have done a Taki.

sailer 99 · Post by **sailer 99** » 18 May 2009, 23:44

If any F1 driver was going to run into the safety car it would be a ferrari driver because their team told them to ignore the yellow flags

RejectSteve · Post by **RejectSteve** » 19 May 2009, 02:33

sailer 99 wrote:If any F1 driver was going to run into the safety car it would be a ferrari driver because their team told them to ignore the yellow flags

That depends if Hamilton passes the safety car and then slows to allow it to overtake him again. McLaren would then request Kovalainen to "unknowingly" drive straight into the safety car.

midgrid · Post by **midgrid** » 19 May 2009, 16:34

noshpit wrote:the first lap of the 2nd race in the wtcc in pau was utter mayhem , (bit like spanish gp but better) the safety car got c ompletely totaled

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYO4yPmf5AI

also the track looks like an okay street circuit - only problem for f1 would be that it would need to be widened by about 10 times its current width

We could end up with a race where the leader laps the entire field, and the entire first lap is covered by yellow flags! :lol:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLkNQrMSLSM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucIsE6qT ... re=related

DonTirri · Post by **DonTirri** » 19 May 2009, 18:03

midgrid wrote:
noshpit wrote:the first lap of the 2nd race in the wtcc in pau was utter mayhem , (bit like spanish gp but better) the safety car got c ompletely totaled

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYO4yPmf5AI

also the track looks like an okay street circuit - only problem for f1 would be that it would need to be widened by about 10 times its current width

We could end up with a race where the leader laps the entire field, and the entire first lap is covered by yellow flags!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLkNQrMSLSM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucIsE6qT ... re=related

Rofl, the stewards bathplug up

had similar thing happened in Monaco for an f1-race, the red flags woulda been out before you could say "the hell is goin on?"

tristan1117 · Post by **tristan1117** » 19 May 2009, 21:43

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VldtZ6qG ... re=related

Well at least it wasn't this bad. Lots of rejects in this group.

WeirdKerr · Post by **WeirdKerr** » 19 May 2009, 22:37

tristan1117 wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VldtZ6qG8Cw&feature=related

Well at least it wasn't this bad. Lots of rejects in this group.

and the race was won by the wheel bouncing off on its own..... lonely wheel lol

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