Quote Originally Posted by Doc Austin View Post
We see 220mph Indycar crashes all year long, and in some of them the drivers don't even get a scratch. What hurt Bianchi is that he struck his head on the crane. Had he hit the Armco it would have probably been an ordinary crash.

I have not seen any injuries reported than the head injury, so you can say the car did it's job protecting him. The helmet probably deserves some credit here too because hitting your head on something at that speed is simply not survivable, yet Jules still has some hope.



The recovery vehicles wouldn't be a problem if they kept them behind the barriers. I did not know they were allowed there, but if I did, it would have been easy to see this coming.
I don't think that is correct, I don't think his head impacted the crane, the injury is not an impact injury, concentrated in one point, but a spread injury throughout the brain caused by the rapid deceleration, not an impact. I remember reading at the time that there was not any impact noted on the helmet. I fear if his helmet had contacted the crane at 125kph they'd have been picking up pieces