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Oh dear. :\Quote:
Red Bull Racing have been asked to supply a technical report to the FIA to explain why the stewards should not consider excluding them from the Malaysian Grand Prix on safety grounds, following David Coulthard's accident in first practice.
Could they just exclude Sponge Bob? He's a menace! :D
IMO they went a bit to far with the design process in that area.
Putting it down to an adhesive that failed it's not enough to prove that the next time it won't be the same under hard braking.
And BTW, why did that adhesive failed? Maybe the contact surface is too small.
Well, it was interesting how the suspension, esp. the rear suspension of DC, seem to come "unglued" in the contact with Massa while massa sufferred no apparent damge to his. Pieces were going everywhere!!
Does anyone have a link showing the accident, please! We didn't have that here on TV. :(
your missunderstanding what happened here. The adhesive failure is what caused the track rod to fail which sent DC off the track in the first place, its not what caused all of his wheels to come flying off, that was caused by hitting the curbing too hard. As for the crash in melbourne, DC's car didn't brake up from contact with massa's car, the impact with massa's car just launched DC into the air, it was the subsequent landing that caused the suspension to brake apart.Quote:
Originally Posted by markabilly
if you read the article it tells you why the adhesive failed, the adhesive failed due to human error, the person who put it together did not treat it properly and therefore it didn't properly seal. Again this failure only caused DC to go off the road, and is quite seperate to the suspension all braking apart which appened after he rode over the curb, exactly the same as how Timo Glock's toyota came apart in the last race! So its hardly just RBR who's suspension comes apart due to impact with a curb!Quote:
Originally Posted by ioan
Human error is the easiest to blame as it can't be really checked afterwards.Quote:
Originally Posted by RJL25
But I'll give them the benefit of the doubt.
If they don't get things right at this level of technology than this season will be like many others before.
Yes, I'm rather surprised that the connection has been made with the accident in Australia. I didn't think the damage caused to Coulthard's car was any worse than what you would expect in such an incident.Quote:
Originally Posted by RJL25
However, it is very unusual for the stewards to bring something like this up, so they probably have a genuine, specific concern. Whether it's right or not, we shall see.
Suspension? Like Toyota in Canada last year.
After winter testing there were quite high expectations on Red Bull and also suggestions that they are finally reliable. Well, not!
And who compares Glock's and Coulthard's accidents at Melbourne, then as much as I remember Timo's accident was more serious, so I wouldn't make such comparison.
Just saw Webber's, incident, no way was that bad enough to cause a car to loose it's suspension bits if everything is okay. They hit kerbs much worse than that.