Beavis Posted April 16, 2010 Posted April 16, 2010 For Sebastien Buemi. Never seen anything like this http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsp ... 624282.stm Quote
maz0 Posted April 16, 2010 Posted April 16, 2010 Crazy! Looks like a design flaw? maybe sacrificing structural strength for weight again.. Quote
Jak Posted April 16, 2010 Posted April 16, 2010 That could have been a whole lot worse, the actual impact etc, luckily, was pretty light! Jak Quote
s1xtyn1n3 Posted April 16, 2010 Posted April 16, 2010 yeah, just watching it now. that'll t-cut out Quote
rich5259 Posted April 16, 2010 Posted April 16, 2010 What happened to the tethers that are suppose to keep the wheels attached to the bulk of the car??? And why design it so that if 1 upright fails the other is instantly overloaded? Time for another change in the design rules to make the drivers safe Quote
s1xtyn1n3 Posted April 16, 2010 Posted April 16, 2010 What happened to the tethers that are suppose to keep the wheels attached to the bulk of the car???They were attached to the uprights which were the cause of the problem so the wheels came straight off. Very strange accident, but not utterly dissimilar to a spyker accident in 2006: Quote
s1xtyn1n3 Posted April 16, 2010 Posted April 16, 2010 for those who missed it, the bbc have posted a video of it up: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsp ... 624282.stm edit: just noticed beavis posted this already Quote
stesrg Posted April 16, 2010 Posted April 16, 2010 Bloody hell glad he is ok anyway what made me laugh was he was still trying to stear when he had no wheels on just tickled me Ste . Quote
Chris`I Posted April 16, 2010 Posted April 16, 2010 Yeah saw this on the news earlier, absolutely mad! They shouldnt be able to tether the wheels to something that cant take the force and fails too Quote
bounty78 Posted April 16, 2010 Posted April 16, 2010 WTF! He was going in a straight line.the front suspension just disintegrated. That reminds me of our poorly made NISMO V1 replica the fibreglass stuffs Quote
GT4 Zed Posted April 16, 2010 Posted April 16, 2010 WTF Must be design flaw rather than a bad batch of uprights Quote
mattbowey Posted April 16, 2010 Posted April 16, 2010 the interview with him is quality, he's more bothered by the fact he didn't get to drive. "it wasn't that bad from in the car", i know what colour my pants would be if that happened and i was driving. Quote
Chris`I Posted April 16, 2010 Posted April 16, 2010 Apprently the part of the car they tether it to can take 5000KG of force on them and they still broke Quote
ian.lewkowicz Posted April 16, 2010 Posted April 16, 2010 Bloody hell glad he is ok anyway what made me laugh was he was still trying to stear when he had no wheels on just tickled me Ste . I noticed that too, must just be instinct of a racing driver to try and steer into the skid, wouldn't have made any difference though without wheels Interview with Buemi afterwards "I've never seen this before and if you look at the on board I keep the steering wheel in my hand but it didn't really help" Quote
s1xtyn1n3 Posted April 16, 2010 Posted April 16, 2010 Apprently the part of the car they tether it to can take 5000KG of force on them and they still broke yeah, what was really impressive is that only the right upright failed, but because it went, the left was almost instantly overloaded causing it to go as well! must have been an absolutely insane amount of energy being passed around! toro rosso are running the previous version of the uprights now rather than the newer ones they brought to shanghai which is probably for the best! Quote
Ebized Posted April 16, 2010 Posted April 16, 2010 i know what colour my pants would be if that happened and i was driving. same as your car Quote
neo Posted April 16, 2010 Posted April 16, 2010 the in-car view even shows him trying to steer when the wheels are no longer attached damn lucky escape tho Quote
rtbiscuit Posted April 16, 2010 Posted April 16, 2010 these things happen from time to time, my guess is there was a flaw in that particular one. the mathmatics on the design would be to spread the weight over both axles, cars were never designed to run on 3 wheels. if one comes off your pretty much out of the race anyway. it won't be a major issue or it would be happening all the time. and no if he'd had nuts like mine the wheel still would have come off as it wasn't his nuts that failed Quote
geoff-r Posted April 16, 2010 Posted April 16, 2010 the interview with him is quality, he's more bothered by the fact he didn't get to drive. "it wasn't that bad from in the car", i know what colour my pants would be if that happened and i was driving. Haha classic! Quote
Ebized Posted April 16, 2010 Posted April 16, 2010 Be interested to hear what our new member who works for Red bull team says about this Quote
s1xtyn1n3 Posted April 16, 2010 Posted April 16, 2010 Be interested to hear what our new member who works for Red bull team says about this true, although red bull have really nothing to do with toro rosso this year Quote
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