Bahrain Grand Prix 6th April ***SPOILERS***

"it will always be more preferable to have an impact with a wall side on, purely because theres a bigger surface area to abosrb teh impact, again, simple physics..."

If you say so, lawl.

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haha yeah they really can't speak today. Maybe they had a very heavy night out

itv's feed is a total waste of bandwidth

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Minimum lap time requirements in qualifying now, to head off the mess in Malaysia. Massa's on some sort of a charge. Looks like he knows this is a make or break race.

see the psycology of kimi he lets massa get excited then crushes him in the race.

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Yes! My 4 gridbids drivers are 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th on the grid!

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Well, who saw that coming? Great result for BMW, made my day.

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GOOOOOOOOOOO KUBICA!!!! :d:d:d

went quite ballistic there!!! :D:D

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light on fuel surely, depending on how many laps light it may not turn out to be that great a lap.

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Amazing Robert! Congrats!

Massa with gear problems?

Kimi And Heikki Heavy?

KOO-BEE-KAH !

rapid_f1 Wrote:
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> light on fuel surely, depending on how many laps
> light it may not turn out to be that great a lap.

They've not shown themselves to be going particularly light on fuel so far this season, and Kubica's been pretty fast consistently, so I don't think they'll be really light.

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Wow, well done Kubica. Irrespective of the amount of fuel, getting pole is still a worthy achievement against the likes of Ferrari and McLaren.

I would guess about 2 laps lighter than massa and about 3-4 laps lighter than kimi, nh, lh. he was 7 tenths quicker than nh.

and i doubt bbc will be any better than itv with lewis loving, bmw just get their 1st pole and they put on the site that lh is third in qualy as their motorsport story.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/05/2008 02:22PM by rapid_f1.

Great result for Kubica. Good laps for Kubica, Lewis and Jense :D

It's nice to see him in the top10 again! It was important to get ahead of the Renaults and RedBulls because I think the fight for 7th and 8th will be tight. But it seems both the Toyota of Trulli and Williams of Nico are quicker than the Hondas/RedBulls/Renault. Gonna be a great race!

edit - shame im gonna miss it

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/05/2008 02:24PM by chet.

Nice to see change at front even in qualy. I wish to see BMW seriously fight for wins, atleast in some races...

Bravo to Kubica

BRAVO KUBICA!!! Amazing, BWM FTW!

Stupidly amazing laps from Jense as well, hopefully this race will be damn good with Robert in P1 :D

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Wow! This was a great result. I was already annoyed with Massa, so to see Kubica get pole position was really superb. Looks like Kimi is heavier than everybody else, which should payoff nicely during the race. Would've been better if he was on 3rd, but roll on tomorrow. I don't think Kubica can win just yet, but a podium is possible I think.

huge well done to kubica it was a superb lap and it makes for a cracking race tomorrow

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> it will always be more preferable to have an
> impact with a wall side on, purely because theres
> a bigger surface area to abosrb teh impact, again,
> simple physics...

Thanks for dumbing down physics in order to prove your argument. Here's some issues that you've neglected that you might consider useful:

1. Objects have a strong and weak direction. This is common in many objects, as we do not drive cubes. Take a piece of paper and roll it into a cylinder. Now, try to compress the cylinder from the ends and crush it. Take a new piece of paper and roll it into a cylinder. Now, try to bend it. You should notice that it is easier to bend the cylinder than to crush it by compression. This leads to the next point:

2. Many forms of steel tend to be weaker in shear than in compression or tension. A rigid bar of steel, such as the side of a car chassis, may fail suddenly by shearing when t-boned. Alternatively, because of the greater area of a car's side, greater moments are generated for any given force.

3. The purpose of crumple zones is to dissipate the energy of an impact over a greater period of time. Furthermore, the driver is far closer to the side of the vehicle than the front.


This is why many drivers are killed from side impacts. Within the last 2 years, 2 V8 Supercar drivers have died because of side impacts which arguably, may have been survivable had they collided head on (both were killed by trauma to the head/chest). In fact, Chris Alajajian slid sideways into the side of Mark Porter's car, which by your theory should have been the safest possible way to crash.