Blimey, those F1 boys have found a way to add excitement to the snooze fest. There will be one random shit tyre each race meeting. It's about time they added something entertaining to it. Has anyone else got some good ideas to inject some spice to the drab spectacle?
Your right, perhaps they need to take away the huge run off areas and get rid of the safety cage. Even a numpty like me could walk away from crash in an f1 car
The problem with the current, ridiculously small, wheels on F1 cars is the outdated, high profile tyres that are required so that the manufacturer's name can be seen on the sidewalls. Pretty much every other component on the cars has advanced and evolved but the wheel sizes have remained the same for decades. I'm pretty sure that no other current (track) race series uses such ridiculously tall tyres...
Blanchimont is not a nice place to crash, he was very lucky that it blew where it did and not going into the 1st left, or indeed the left rear let go rather than the right rear. I instruct regularly at Spa in all sorts of metal and have seen many cars destroyed along that stretch. The concrete wall on the left along Blanchimont was put there for one reason, the officials at Spa were so tired of repairing armco. However it will destroy cars and bikes with ease.
He said it was just luck that he didn't end up in the wall. I'm not surprised he wanted to walk back to the pits, he looked quite shaken up.
Give the f1 cars a horn that blasts out the dukes of hazard noise when overtaking .and make the pit crew wear fancy dress, and introduce water jumps.
Seb didn't sound too happy about his tyre letting go... Curious that it was the same tyre that Niko had a problem with.
