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That was a very interesting read, I'm always fascinated by the history of the sport, and why things have developed.

Thanks!

 

I think making the cars fragile should actually encourage the drivers to THINK before making a move as it would more than likely end one or more drivers races. I hate the new Indy cars, (the oval safety argument aside) they are ugly and allow way to much contact between cars. To much like NASCRAP..... Drivers just need to race, not just win.

 

I understand what you are saying Steve, but F1 is the highest level of technology & part of that tech is safety. No way they would ever go with making the cars more fragile.

I'm not keen about the looks of the new Indy cars either, but I'm a huge fan of the added safety provided by that ugly bodywork.

 

I guess I should have said more fragile that they already are.

Yes fragile in some ways, but the tubs are amazingly strong. Shedding parts in a crash dissipates energy keeping it from reaching the driver. The drivers cell remains intact. Carbon-fiber is funny stuff. Incredibly strong in some ways. You see cars take huge hits & look fairly intact. Other times they shed parts like they are held together with a wish & a prayer. Remember the front suspension failing on the Toro Rosso a couple of seasons ago? They build em as light as they can, sometimes too much.

 

Safety at 200+ mph at an oval should be different than the 100mph Monaco race tho.....

 

You can say that, but have your seen what Conor Daly did at Monaco this year?

Conor was lucky to survive. He was going plenty fast enough to die, yep even at Monaco.

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Different kind of crash. Indy cars were changed to try and reduce the car to car incidents on ovals. Been a long time since a driver died on a road course.

Ovals are the real problem with open wheel racing in regards to vehicle safety.

 

Not an oval in Monaco, but wheel to wheel contact, the same mechanism that caused that huge tragic crash at Vegas. It has been a while, but Jeff Krosnoff died along with an innocent corner worker at Toronto in 2008. Road course have dangers too. Racing is a dangerous sport for sure.

 

Or in Colin Chapman's words: if the car doesn't fall apart on the cooling-down lap, it was built far too heavily.

 

NBC to show F1 starting next year. Speed is done! (&;/@?
So much for motorsports coverage in the US

 

Time to start lining up all those good torrent feeds. I hear BBC coverage is the tits.

 

Yep they should have let Massa play through. Massa showed he is Fernando's little lap dog today.

 

Massa has always been the #2 driver, and Alonso will not have a teammate who doesn't clearly know his place......

That's why talk of Vettel going to Ferrari in 2014 doesn't make much sense to me, he's too strong a driver to accept #2 status, and Alonso's not going to have it any other way - it will not work, I promise you.

Red Bull would be foolish to allow Vettel to go to another team, unless they're just tired of winning. Every year he becomes a better and more complete driver. That's not to say there aren;t other excellent drivers out there, but you have only to look at Opie's teammate to see that he's the top choice, and that takes nothing away from Webba.

I haven't watched the race yet so I'll refrain from comments till I do, but my pre-race finish order guess was Vettel, Webbo and then the Hamster.