Even one is too much, made me sad and feel bad. That video allso shows why everyone has to use hans. Sad video

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If you have a look at some of the modern day "crash" vid's on youtube, you'll realise, that, if some of todays driver's were in cars built just 10 or 15 yrs ago, then they would'nt have survived. Folk whinge about F1 being boring, but personally, i'd rather watch a boring race, than watch someone being killed or seriously injured every week on live mainstream TV.

Tracks were before much more dangerous and so were spectator safety pretty bad but today's formula car does 1/2 of the driving. If we had same kind of cars with similar powers than 20-30 years ago, without driving aids but with modern safety instructions and todays F1 tracks, I don't see any problems with overall safety. Cars would be just harder to drive but not that much more dangerous. I'm just dreaming about this kind of F1.

What the hell... didn't they do one with Mercedes/McLaren and David Coulthard??? (Looks like Top Gear had copied Ferrari) Still, this one is WAY BETTER!!!!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Fqkezu4Le98

Man this is bumpy: http://youtube.com/watch?v=10exftChW90

I miss a yellow F1 car http://youtube.com/watch?v=ENeFsSGv1L8

Lol and someone shows this video, which is the FO8, but they call it F1 (looks like pre-patch) http://youtube.com/watch?v=0OsnxQSN2pk

A good 2005 F1 review clip: http://youtube.com/watch?v=T9DNOco6i5w

Despite my depression after watching the accidents, it still amazes me how ineffective the fire suppression equipment was/is in many cases. One would think that they could have had something better. Use of CO2 extinguishers just seems idiotic. Once the CO2 dissipates and oxygen is supplied again there is still plenty of heat in the car to once again ignite the remaining fuel. Spraying large volumes of water to cool things down and/or foaming the crap out of everything makes more sense to me, but perhaps they simply can not respond quickly enough.

Quote from Tweaker :

A good 2005 F1 review clip: http://youtube.com/watch?v=T9DNOco6i5w

That was nice.

Quote from deggis :

Tracks were before much more dangerous and so were spectator safety pretty bad but today's formula car does 1/2 of the driving. If we had same kind of cars with similar powers than 20-30 years ago, without driving aids but with modern safety instructions and todays F1 tracks, I don't see any problems with overall safety. Cars would be just harder to drive but that much more dangerous. I'm just dreaming about this kind of F1.

Actually i agree with you Deggis. It would put the skill back into the drivers hands rather than the electronics. Some of the drivers agree too, JV in particular. In fact, they did try to ban all driving aids a couple of yrs ago, but, found that there was no effective way to regulate the use of electronics within the cars, because driving aids could be easily hidden within the system. I'll have a google and see if i can find a more technical explanation.
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[edit], just found this from FIA reg's for 2008

- A standard electronic control unit for engine and gearbox to be used at all times in Formula One (Article 8.2).

Reason: To reduce costs, eliminate driver aids such as traction control and allow the FIA to check engine use and testing mileage.
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However, this is a quote from Patrick Head, on this subject :- I’m not convinced that it automatically follows that if you have a standard ECU that there’s no more possibility of some sort of power modulation but if we all get put to a standard ECU then those of us, few of us, with devious minds will turn their attention to other means.

Time will tell, but there are some very very interesting rule changes for 2008
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[edit 2]Looks like your dreams maybe coming true Deggis, heres a link to the 2008 proposed rule changes http://www.formula1.com/news/3175.html
This is looking very very interesting just keep your fingers crossed that all of these are implemented

Quote from Mazz4200 :

heres a link to the 2008 proposed rule changes

yay! Now it's going to be a looong anxious wait till '08

wow.. with those changes there are many more things that can go wrong in terms of driver error 2008 should be interesting.