Problems with visibility in a F1 car

[schmenke]

The drivers need to rise up to the problem.

[Big Ben]

Its crazy that people can even entertain babysitting F1 drivers hock: Whatever happened to these guys being the best of the best in the world

Drive the damn cars and stop making excuses!

You have to admit though that McLaren's strategy worked wonderfully, at least that's the way it looks around here, no one talks about the actual incident anymore.

[Big Ben]

I still believe this is just BS so people stop talking about LH's reckless driving but I wonder... wouldn't have smarter to take a different angle... like FM being in LH's blind spot... it sounds more likely to me.... I mean even if the mirrors vibrate a lot shouldn't LH had seen at least a red spot or something... and even if he didn't see anything where could had FM disappeared? My guess he didn't even look so not even 2m by 2m mirrors would have helped much.

[555-04Q2]

You have to admit though that McLaren's strategy worked wonderfully, at least that's the way it looks around here, no one talks about the actual incident anymore.

Never looked at it from that angle

[Bagwan]

I still believe this is just BS so people stop talking about LH's reckless driving but I wonder... wouldn't have smarter to take a different angle... like FM being in LH's blind spot... it sounds more likely to me.... I mean even if the mirrors vibrate a lot shouldn't LH had seen at least a red spot or something... and even if he didn't see anything where could had FM disappeared? My guess he didn't even look so not even 2m by 2m mirrors would have helped much.

Here's the thing though , Big .
Dumping on Hamilton can be easily achieved in the "Haminton" thread .

We're trying to look at a larger issue here . Can they see well enough to drive these contraptions ?

[Bagwan]

The drivers need to rise up to the problem.

If they only would glance in thier mirrors , they'd see how poorly they looked .

[ioan]

The drivers need to rise up to the problem.

You misplaced an 's':

The driver needs to rise up to the problem.

And before anyone feels like starting a war, this was just a joke.

[steveaki13]

You misplaced an 's':

The driver needs to rise up to the problem.

And before anyone feels like starting a war, this was just a joke.

Surely jokes have been banned by now. :

[steveaki13]

Not really sure but is there any real chance of having a camera system seems like having to look down to much while racing and also the beeping system mentioned above also would be hard to hear above radio chat and the engine noise.

My thought is that mirrors just need to be bigger and fixed in a way so they don't much in isolation of the cars own movements i.e flapping around.

[call_me_andrew]

This is a common problem in all motorsports today. Headrests have gotten so big that it blocks the driver's peripheral vision.

There's an easy solution, but you're not going to like it: spotters.