I am starting to feel depressed when reading those updates. I feel so sorry for that young man and his family...a guy with so much potential. I am just hoping that he recovers fully. I am also going to say that those JCBs should not be used to remove crashed cars especially if a safety car is not deployed. There was a guy at the front who was trying to stabilize Sutil's car when it was being lifted... A few more inches and he would have been dead as Bianchi's car flashed by him like lightning. He hardly had a chance to react. I think if the tall care was there we wouldn't be discussing this now as Bianchi would have crashed into the tyre wall. If they are going to use those trucks they need to have the safety car out there first as those car aren't built to withstand that sort of crash.
That's what me and Iceman were talking about, unlikely that it is minimal considering the speed he was going at.
Really hope I'm wrong about that as it's hard to say how much of the impact was taken by the roll bar. But when I look a the image of the JCB that you posted above, it just makes me shudder. It's amazing his neck wasn't broken or crushed.
Trouble with bring out the safety car to recover any stranded car, doesn't that cause drivers to loose a load of temperature from their tyres, giving them a greatly increased risk of spinning off, so risking another crash?
Smithers said in the Schumacher thread that we need hope right now. I agree entirely. I wrote a short story about Jules with a sort of Life on Mars spin, mostly as a way of letting out some emotion about this whole thing and trying to turn the negativity into something positive. It's not a huge read - just over 2 pages of A4. https://www.dropbox.com/s/hrdk31d1yptgqlk/Bianchi.pdf?dl=0 It DOES contain real people and so I understand completely if people consider it disrespectful and will remove if necessary, but hope it can be seen optimistically. Hoping for good news about Jules tomorrow. (Later today?)
Read this last night TomTom but couldn't respond as the board was going through it's downtime. I think it's excellent sir. I don't think it's inappropriate at all. Very well done!
please log in to view this image http://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/vergne-arranges-helmet-stickers-to-honour-bianchi/ This is going to be an extremely bittersweet weekend.
Nice of the drivers to show their support as a group. Shame it takes something like this to pull them all together. As for the race, I will watch it through dry eyes, though each to their own.
Me too. At first I thought, 'I'm not sure I like this', but by the end I thought this is just the right therapy, tears and all. There's a photo somewhere of Jules and Michael reaching their arms out and almost touching; a very poignant image now.
Going to edit that statement above about Russia, was just rather a sad reminder when I realised all the drivers would have those on and we still don't know any more. More emotion than anything else. Bit of hyperbole in the moment. If the short story had any effect at all for anyone that makes me happy, so I'm glad to see people's responses. Of course, most of all, I hope for Jules; it would be fantastic if we could have some uplifting news over the weekend. Keep fighting.
Like everyone, what has happened is very sad. This weekend will not be the same and nor will the other weekends. We need Jules to pull through and really hope he can and does. Life is fragile, too much tragedy in the world generally right now.
Still very early days if Jules is to make a reasonable recovery. The next key moment (news-wise) will be if/when they feel ready to attempt to wake him. I think that'll tell us an awful lot about his long-term prognosis.
Indeed, i don't think the drivers know any more than we do tbh. The only people who will are the doctors and his family, and even then i doubt that they'll know that much more than what has been publicised. It's way too early to tell. Also hated the speculation in the papers today that more family and friends arrived to see him, so the signs were even more worrying, totally irresponsible "journalisim".
There was a cameraman filming Bianchi's crash wasn't there? I find it hard to believe Charlie didn't pick it up (unless I'm fundamentally misunderstanding the nature of the camera feeds he receives).
