I might be wrong, but I can't think of one driver to have been killed or seriously injured in a McLaren Grand Prix car.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scuderia ferrari
Can anybody else?
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I might be wrong, but I can't think of one driver to have been killed or seriously injured in a McLaren Grand Prix car.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scuderia ferrari
Can anybody else?
Mika Hakkinen was nearly killed at the Australian GP in 1995.Quote:
Originally Posted by BeansBeansBeans
Correct, I'd forgotten about that. Hardly validates Scuderia's claim that McLaren make death traps though does it?Quote:
Originally Posted by BriannaBee
Especially considering that Mika's crash was caused by a tire failure and not a car failure.Quote:
Originally Posted by BeansBeansBeans
:laugh: :up: :s mokin:Quote:
Originally Posted by luvracin
Thanks God he didn´t brake his legs... (like Schu did some years ago in a crap Ferrari...) or even worse... take off with the seat...Quote:
Originally Posted by Scuderia ferrari
Ron told Hamilton not to drink. :D
Well, this is funnier in Spain, qhere newspapers have rushed to kill Hamilton. They try to "say" that the accident was his fault, and he has destroyed a car 5 minutes after joining the team. And that new is just before the one of "Ferrari, in which is Raikkonen, have serious trouble". Spanish F1 press is pure bull****...
First of all, everybody crashes in F1. In fact, one of the greatest crashers (because he had a lot of them) was Michael Schumacher! And there´s nothing wrong with that. The more you race, the more accidents you´ll have because you´re exposer to that risk. If Hamilton crashes, nothing important because he´s ok. But for the Spanish press is a boom. And people start saying things like "De La Rosa would have done it better, they should have put him in the car instead of that "whoknows". And just after that they say that Ferrari have had an engine failure, and inmediately people start bashing Raikkonen. Well, nobody stopped for a while and read the entire new, because the problem was with Massa´s car, and it wasn´t a bang and the car stopped, as press says here... Massa heard a strange noise and stopped the car.
Translation: Here in Spain people usually don´t know a **** about F1, and they have started to follow it because of Alonso´s success. Only the true fans here remember that Alonso drove a Minardi in 2001, that De La Rosa was making the impossible when earning points with Jaguar... And people don´t know that there are other teams, and "the-team-where-Alonso-is" is not the "truly-good-F1-team". How many people will buy Alonso´s cap only to "be cool"...
Maybe it´s a bit off-topic, but I had to say it :S
Apart from Mikka accident (fortunately not too serious), McLaren record is clean of fatal crashes.Quote:
Originally Posted by BeansBeansBeans
Here's the list on GP weekends and test sessions:
September 18, 1953. Charles de Tomaco (Belgium) - Modena Autodrome Test. Ferrari.
July 31, 1954. Onofre Marimon (Argentina) - German GP qualifying. Maserati.
March 14, 1957 Eugenio castellotti (Italy) - Modena Autodrome Test. Ferrari.
July 6, 1958. Luigi Musso (Italy) - French GP. Ferrari.
August 3, 1958 Peter Collins (Britain) - German GP. Ferrari.
September 19, 1958 Stuart Lewis-Evans (Britain) - Moroccan GP. Vanwall.
August 1, 1959 Ivor Bueb (Britain) - Charade Circuit Test. Cooper.
June 19, 1960 Chris Bristow (Britain) - Belgian GP. Cooper.
June 19, 1960 Alan Stacey (Britain) - Belgian GP. Lotus.
February 17, 1961 Giulio Cabianca (Italy) - Modena Autodrome Test. Cooper.
September 10, 1961 Wolfgang Von Trips (West Germany) - Italian GP. Ferrari.
November 1, 1962 Ricardo Rodríguez (Mexico) - Mexican GP. Lotus.
August 2 1964 Carel Godin de Beaufort (Netherlands) - German GP qualifying. Porsche.
August 7, 1966 John Taylor (Britain) - German GP. Brabham.
May 10, 1967 Lorenzo Bandini (Italy) - Monaco GP. Ferrari.
August 14, 1967 Bob Anderson (Britain) - Silverstone Test. Brabham.
May 7, 1968 Mike Spence (Britain) - Indianapolis Test. Lotus.
July 7, 1968 Jo Schlesser (France) - French GP. Honda.
August 2, 1969 Gerhard Mitter (West Germany) - German GP qualifying. BMW.
June 7, 1970 Piers Courage (Britain) - Dutch GP. De Tomaso.
September 5, 1970 Jochen Rindt (Austria) - Italian GP qualifying. Lotus.
July 29, 1973 Roger Williamson (Britain) - Dutch GP. March.
October 7, 1973 Francois Cevert (France) - U.S. GP qualifying. Tyrrell.
March 30, 1974 Peter Revson (United States) - South African GP. Shadow.
October 6, 1974 Helmuth Koinigg (Austria) - U.S. GP. Surtees.
August 19, 1975 Mark Donahue (United States) - Austrian GP qualifying. Penske.
May 5, 1977 Tom Pryce (Britain) - South African GP. Shadow.
September 10, 1978 Ronnie Peterson (Sweden) - Italian GP. Lotus.
August 1, 1980 Patrick Depallier (France) - Hockenheim Test. Alfa Romeo.
May 8, 1982 Gilles Villeneuve (Canada) - Belgian GP qualifying. Ferrari.
June 13, 1982 Ricardo Paletti (Italy) - Canadian GP. Osella.
May 15, 1986 Elio de Angelis (Italy) - Paul Ricard Test. Brabham.
April 30, 1994 Roland Ratzenberger (Austria) - San Marino GP qualifying. Simtek.
May 1, 1994 Ayrton Senna (Brazil) - San Marino GP. Williams.
BY TEAMS:
Ferrari: 7.
Lotus: 5.
Cooper: 3.
Brabham: 3.
Shadow: 2.
Maserati: 1.
Vanwall: 1.
Porsche: 1.
Honda: 1.
BMW: 1.
De Tomaso: 1.
March: 1.
Tyrrell: 1.
Surtees: 1.
Penske: 1.
Alfa Romeo: 1.
Osella: 1.
Simtek: 1.
Williams: 1.
34 deaths is too much, but safety has improoved a lot in the last decade.
Let's hope this list will never grow.
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/56485Quote:
Originally Posted by Scuderia ferrari
It suprises me that Fia let... :uhoh: