Everytime I leave Detroit, I'm shocked at how there are cars other than Fords, Chevys and Dodges. Chicago has a crapton of Priuses and Nissan Sentras, and you can hardly find any here.
Then I get to rural Indiana again, and it's like home, except the cars are 15 years older
I ended up figuring out it was region-blocked for me, and I was too lazy to try to get around it... so I just went back to sleep. I was only up that early by complete chance anyways
I believe that's currently for bikes only, as it had no curbing last I checked. It would be safer yeah, but it's just not the same circuit then A safer barrier has to be just as easy to put in as new curbing.
They put that in special for the bikes, because the corner was so dangerous for them... they had giant, inflatable barriers they put up for a while, to stop drivers from sliding into the hard wall. But that was still very, very scary when they did have accidents there, far more than in any car.
I go to that track almost every year... I'm well aware of the lack of renovation space. And I've also seen the remnants of several very bad accidents from the kink, usually single seaters.
My dad's friend had a small touch in his formula ford in that corner last year, car was completely ruined when he backed into the wall hard. We saw him go through turn 5 from the hill, then he didn't come back around and he wasn't answering his radio. It's just a bit more scary and when it's happened to a close friend I guess.
I wasn't advocating runoff area anyways. That would destroy the character of the corner, and I love how challenging it can be. I was suggesting SAFER barriers... there's absolutely no reason to not have them there that I can think of. It wouldn't change the corner at all, it would only make it safer in the event that one of the really fast cars had a big moment there. It's a very high velocity track, and I think the safety measures should match that.
Katherine Legge won't like that at all... they might have to do something about the outside wall on the kink if they want IndyCar speeds to be safe there
I was just going to say, how many drivers/ teams does this mean he hates, because they pushed/ broke the rules at one point? Schumacher, Senna, Prost, Renault(now Lotus), Piquet Jr., Alonso (who benefited from Piquet), McLaren (spygate), yadda yadda yadda.
And what about the teams that have used devices that are very borderline or even illegal over the years? There's at least one of those pretty much every year.
It's just the nature of the game. You push the rules as far as they will go, perhaps a bit further in the pursuit of victory. Could fill an entire novel on Formula 1 controversies, and then some.
I would have assumed if his racing accomplishments and long career hadn't made everyone aware of him, that tax-evasion row would have. Or Dancing With the Stars
It's just funny to us, because he's at least as big a name as all those names you listed.
Also, if they start dry, but it rains hard late, the other drivers won't need to use their hard tyres. Whereas Vettel will have already gotten his out of the way.
Not really, it's more general discussion than who was specifically at fault last weekend... besides, we've moved on from Australia, if he was a big story in multiple ways last weekend, you have to expect people will be anxious to see what happens to him the next one.
I'll bite for a Mercedes making the front row, to make an all-silver front row.