The Crane and Lewis

Poor Ralfie - nobody loves him anymore!! :(

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Originally Posted by Valve Bounce

Poor Ralfie - nobody loves him anymore!! :(

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You like to support the underdog, why not join the Ralf fan base?

Not support top drivers and neither the crane ;)

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Originally Posted by ioan

You like to support the underdog, why not join the Ralf fan base?

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Words fail me. :(

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Originally Posted by Valve Bounce

Words fail me. :(

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There's a first .

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Originally Posted by Bagwan

There's a first .

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Originally Posted by Valve Bounce

Well, I suppose if another car came and hit your car, it would be a little safer if you had already got the hell outa there and took refuge behind hte safety barrier. Unless, of course, if a helicopter came outa the sky and missed the car and crashed behind the safety barrier.

It's all about perspectives, I guess!!

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I see what you mean, but surely it is safer to be in your car until you know it's safe enough to get out of it - as we all know, there were cars going off all over the place.

Don't forget that an F1 car has amazing crash protection built into it. Why move from a place of protection simply to get to another place of crash protection, risking (another) injury in the process? If he was going to be getting out in that situation with cars flying past, it would've been better to wait until the safety car or the red flag came out.

I think that I remember Martin Brundle commenting when Ralf got out of his car that he wouldn't've done it that soon, or something like that, just on the off chance that another car could crash off into that same place. Then again, that's not a direct quote, so take it as you will.

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Originally Posted by ioan

You like to support the underdog, why not join the Ralf fan base?

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Would one person count as a fan base? :)

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Originally Posted by cosmicpanda

I see what you mean, but surely it is safer to be in your car until you know it's safe enough to get out of it - as we all know, there were cars going off all over the place.

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Those cars should hit the crane first before our car, so going out of it wouldn't be too bad :)

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Originally Posted by cosmicpanda

I see what you mean, but surely it is safer to be in your car until you know it's safe enough to get out of it - as we all know, there were cars going off all over the place.

Don't forget that an F1 car has amazing crash protection built into it. Why move from a place of protection simply to get to another place of crash protection, risking (another) injury in the process? If he was going to be getting out in that situation with cars flying past, it would've been better to wait until the safety car or the red flag came out.

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K!!, lets look at this from a management perspective. First of all, we have the on site Marshalls, and it is they who will control the operation. If there are cars likely to come off, then OK, let the drivers remain in their cars with the engines switched off, until such time as the Marshalls have information that the race has been red flagged, cars have been instructed to slow right down to a crawl, and they can then make their way out to the cars in a safe manner.

In this particular case, the Marshalls were out there when cars were still coming off left, right and centre, and to make it less safe, a crane was mobilised to move the McLaren back onto the track? I am not sure which drivers were told to depart from their cars, by whom, nor when. As it turned out, one of the cars even hit the crane.

AND I am satisfied that the entire operation was carried out in a less than safe manner. I would go as far as to say that the safety of the Marshalls were put at risk.