: Sat Jul 25, 2009 8:19 pm  

Billy Banter wrote: Massa had a heavy crash into the tyre wall in Q2, and will miss the race as he is hospitalised. Nothing too serious, apparently. His condition is life threatening, but stable Having seen a couple of photos if the spring had hit an inch either way he'd have been a goner.

Billy Banter wrote: Massa had a heavy crash into the tyre wall in Q2, and will miss the race as he is hospitalised. Nothing too serious, apparently. His condition is life threatening, but stable Having seen a couple of photos if the spring had hit an inch either way he'd have been a goner.

: Sat Jul 25, 2009 8:44 pm  

Asim wrote: His condition is life threatening, but stable Having seen a couple of photos if the spring had hit an inch either way he'd have been a goner. Hopefully he makes a full and speedy recovery.

Asim wrote: His condition is life threatening, but stable Having seen a couple of photos if the spring had hit an inch either way he'd have been a goner. Hopefully he makes a full and speedy recovery.

: Sat Jul 25, 2009 8:56 pm  

Pretty sickening the video of Massa's crash is. You see the spring hit him, his hands relax and the throttle gauge max out as his foot floors the pedal. Then you see the turn ahead and him plough straight through it into the tyre wall. I don't think the crash did much damage which shows how remarkable the cars are safety wise.

Enclosed cockpits for next season perhaps?

: Sat Jul 25, 2009 9:03 pm  

Grid and weights There is supposed to be an update on Massa tomorrow morning.

Grid and weights There is supposed to be an update on Massa tomorrow morning.

: Sun Jul 26, 2009 9:50 am  

Massa will be out for a fair while I think. Probably will not race for the rest of the season whilst he gets better.

: Sun Jul 26, 2009 10:44 am  

There seems to be a bit of conflicting information about Massa. A fractured skull sounds quite serious to me. He was obviously out cold before he crashed.

: Sun Jul 26, 2009 10:47 am  

Billy Banter wrote:

There seems to be a bit of conflicting information about Massa. A fractured skull sounds quite serious to me. He was obviously out cold before he crashed.

I saw a picture of him when they lifted up his visor and he had a large gash above his eye and his eye was closed too. The helmet was in a bad state.

: Sun Jul 26, 2009 11:12 am  

Saddened! wrote:

Pretty sickening the video of Massa's crash is. You see the spring hit him, his hands relax and the throttle gauge max out as his foot floors the pedal. Then you see the turn ahead and him plough straight through it into the tyre wall. I don't think the crash did much damage which shows how remarkable the cars are safety wise.

Enclosed cockpits for next season perhaps?

not gonna happen...but how cool would the cars look if they did

: Sun Jul 26, 2009 11:19 am  

Dead Man Walking wrote:

I saw a picture of him when they lifted up his visor and he had a large gash above his eye and his eye was closed too. The helmet was in a bad state.

according to the bbc,just now, his helmet remained structually intact..but his visor came off and his helmet had a 4inch groove in it

: Sun Jul 26, 2009 11:34 am  

First corner could be interesting, Hamilton should be able to make some ground using KERS, I wonder if Webber can behave himself this time?