Guimengo Wrote:
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> He died because after going off, he was sent back
> to the track due to no run off (which is the
> current proposal to solve that). He was hit by 3
> cars, similar to the T-bone that happened 3 years
> ago in that same corner. It's been 3 deaths in 3
> years in that corner now, and Alonso/Webber got
> lucky in 2003. A chicane would kill it, they can
> definitely do a nice run off there.
He died because the cars are fast, with space frames from the 60s. They create impacts they can't possibly cope with. If you removed that barrier then you're just delaying the death. A T-bone situation will occur eventually, and a driver will die because the cars can't cope. DTM cars are also thin bodywork (in this case carbon fibre, compared to Brazils fibreglass) with very little energy absorbing materials, but the DTM cars have modern spaceframes designed to take the impacts they can create. Case in point is Tom Ks accident at Hockenheim. Whilst he was injured, it was relatively minor, not life threatening and he made a full recovery.
You can stuck chicanes in every straight in Brazil if you want, but it won't make those cars anything more than rolling dangerous @#$%& boxes.
And one of the deaths with a motorcycle rider. With all due respect, that's a completely different type of death that can't be included in the list with the cars. That's like saying if a plane crashed on that corner then we'd have 70 deaths there. It's a completely different set of safety standards you need for bikes. Given this circuit holds an FIA Grade 1 certificate, it clearly isn't that bad.
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