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Crashing the Marussia F1 car… with no survivors.

Well it's quite tragic, but at least he died doing what he loved.

A negative to Jules' death will probably be that F1 is going to get even slower.

>>5345

It was fucking vicious. His car went from firing on all cylinders to a complete standstill in about half a second. It partially submerged itself underneath the construction equipment. We will never see the official in-car or trackside footage, aside from what the camera caught afterwards and amateur footage. The sound it made was absolutely sickening.

All I can glean from this is it's going to so weird living in a world where Senna was not the last guy to die inside a Formula 1 car, and Graham Beveridge was not the last trackside marshal to be killed (some poor guy got slowly crushed to death by a crane at the Canadian GP earlier last year.)

What the fuck have FIA been playing at, really?

>>5345

His death, for many, would be extremely painful.

>>5351

He was a big guy.

It's a real shame that not only they died but also the new safety restrictions that will inevitably follow. A thought that's actually been going through my head recently is the idea of a non-endurance motorsport where there are no spectators and all car maintenance would be done before the race leaving nobody near the racetrack aside from the drivers, emergency dispatch, and the camera crew hoisted up high behind racing barricades. What this would do is, in theory, allow for less stringent safety regulation and thus faster cars besides, if recent "pedestrian safety" measures are anything to go by its clear that these types of groups no longer give a shit about the safety of the person actually driving. I know there's always going to be someone that says not having spectators goes "against the spirit of motorsports" or something but it's not like I'd be asking all motorsports to be like that and it would give back a glimmer of hope to people like me who prefer older racing events like Group B

>>5359

I don't see why you can't have spectators along straights or on the insides of curves

I do agree though that F1 has become completely pussified and that it's a damn crying shame that there is no motorsport other than prototype racing in which technological boundaries are pushed with earnest.

I'd love for a completely unregulated racing series to become reality. Imagine an OPEN series with two classes, one that only has limitations on overall length and width and another in which the cars have to be road legal but otherwise not limited in any sense.

This is a terrible crash that would be hard to walk away from in any sort of vehicle.

>>5359

there's not a safety reg in the world that could've saved this guy, he managed to get his car wedged under a 6 ton piece of equipment

>>5359

They already did have their response to this event, it being virtual safety cars and having a stricter protocol when putting large equipment to run-off areas.

>>5361

Ideally, the only rules that should exist are dimensions (so you can't block the whole road), number of people inside the car (1), and the type of fuel that goes onboard. 10 wheeled abominations will penalize themselves through pitstops, same goes for those with more powerful engines.

>>5374

So weapons would be legal?

>>5388

Of course not, I'm talking about a basic set of rules that exist for all racing series, plus the ones I mentioned.

>>5354

For you