Incident 2k9 Wrote:
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> Well tarmac does give the drivers another chance
> back out there, but it didn't do a lot to stop
> Massa in Hungary. Gravel slows the car down but
> it's race over. Some kind of tradeoff needs to be
> implemented where it creates the necessary
> friction and trapping tonstop a car but gives a
> second chance to some of the drivers...
>
> It's an interesting point though...
Massas hungary accident was different. He apparently had dead weight on both pedals... so really there wasnt attempt to try and stop.
I view tarmac run-offs as much safer but they do have the disaddvantage of not punishing drivers... Gav has pretty much summed up the two as well as can be really! The point about cars skiding/sliding over the surface of the gravel is one of the main factors IMO. The cars often bounced across the gravel with no control whatsoever. At least with tarmac there is that slight element of control. But it does depend on the type of incident.
Flat bottom racecars are pretty pitch sensitive too, so if one of these cars were to get nose up (at speed) caused by skipping over gravel, then Webber Valencia incidents will not be as rare as you think. Generally the track guys will do as much as they can to help prevent such accidents. Bollards like at T1 Barcelona are fine for slow speed corners...
But yeah, as Gav points both are good and bad but IMO tarmac wins the saftey aspect.
edit - Gav, great idea with the sticky stuff. Thing is, F1/FIA will probably try nad go for the most complicated/stupid idea instead of going for an idea that could actually work!!
"Trulli was slowing down like he wanted to have a picnic" LOL
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/25/2011 02:36AM by chet.