- Joined
- Feb 19, 2012
- Messages
- 29,957
- Reaction score
- 14,683
- Location
- Netherlands
- Gender
- Male
- Political Leaning
- Moderate
I am not sure there was one here and maybe we have some fans here so I thought let us start one.
This weekend is the Formula 1 race in Baku, a track which is a street track (only a few of them in the circuit, most are dedicated race tracks) where normally the traffic in and through Baku drives. This does come with some problems, one can be seen here:
His car said BOOM. As we know F1 cars have huge down forces, so as it is a street track, it has manhole covers. And if manhole covers are not really set in the street, well they can be lifted from the pothole they are covering which is exactly what happened to Russell. When Leclerc, the man from Monaco who is driving a Ferrari, passed the pothole cover a bit earlier, he loosened the the pothole cover. And when Russel drove over the loose manhole cover, the down force from his car sucked up the manhole cover right into the bottom of his car. As you can see it nearly looked like and explosion.
Bad news for Russell and his team Williams because they are also one of the poorest teams in F1, they are pretty much cash strapped.
But the problems did not end there. The entire first practice was cancelled because all manhole covers had to be checked so that this did not happen a second time.
But the comedy of errors did not end there. The car was not working anymore and had to be put on a flatbed truck and driven to the garage/pit of the Williams team. The loading up was not an issue, it worked perfectly. But the driver of the recovery vehicle was not very professional because the boom of his crane was left too high in the air and when he drove under a bridge, as you can believe, the boom of the crane hit the bottom of the bridge and it wrecked the hydraulic oil lines and the hydraulic oil was spilling all over the crashed car.
I think this will be a very difficult, red flag and safety car rich race. Today several cars rammed the wall and 2 were so badly damaged that they needed repairing before they could drive another training session/qualification/race.
It was a frustrating but funny F1 day I must say.
This weekend is the Formula 1 race in Baku, a track which is a street track (only a few of them in the circuit, most are dedicated race tracks) where normally the traffic in and through Baku drives. This does come with some problems, one can be seen here:
His car said BOOM. As we know F1 cars have huge down forces, so as it is a street track, it has manhole covers. And if manhole covers are not really set in the street, well they can be lifted from the pothole they are covering which is exactly what happened to Russell. When Leclerc, the man from Monaco who is driving a Ferrari, passed the pothole cover a bit earlier, he loosened the the pothole cover. And when Russel drove over the loose manhole cover, the down force from his car sucked up the manhole cover right into the bottom of his car. As you can see it nearly looked like and explosion.
Bad news for Russell and his team Williams because they are also one of the poorest teams in F1, they are pretty much cash strapped.
But the problems did not end there. The entire first practice was cancelled because all manhole covers had to be checked so that this did not happen a second time.
But the comedy of errors did not end there. The car was not working anymore and had to be put on a flatbed truck and driven to the garage/pit of the Williams team. The loading up was not an issue, it worked perfectly. But the driver of the recovery vehicle was not very professional because the boom of his crane was left too high in the air and when he drove under a bridge, as you can believe, the boom of the crane hit the bottom of the bridge and it wrecked the hydraulic oil lines and the hydraulic oil was spilling all over the crashed car.
I think this will be a very difficult, red flag and safety car rich race. Today several cars rammed the wall and 2 were so badly damaged that they needed repairing before they could drive another training session/qualification/race.
It was a frustrating but funny F1 day I must say.
