by "Just wear your damn mask..." (jimal)
Published 04/19/2017 at 12:29
by "Just wear your damn mask..." (jimal)
Published 04/19/2017 at 12:29
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Billy Monger, the 17 year old British F4 driver who was injured in that violent crash last weekend at Donington Park lost both of his lower legs as a result of the crash.
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"EL_ULY" (uly)
04/19/2017 at 12:31, STARS: 0
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!
"smobgirl" (smobgirl)
04/19/2017 at 12:31, STARS: 0
Jesus...poor kid :( and poor guy he ran into and poor guy who moved out of the way who probably also feels somewhat responsible. That’s just awful.
"TheHondaBro" (wwaveform)
04/19/2017 at 12:31, STARS: 0
Holy shit.
"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
04/19/2017 at 12:32, STARS: 0
Damn. That sucks.
"$kaycog" (skaycog)
04/19/2017 at 12:36, STARS: 0
Damn! That’s heartbreaking.
"boredalways" (boredalway666)
04/19/2017 at 12:36, STARS: 3
I hope Alex Zinardi will have a chat with him soon.
"Nerd-Vol" (Nerd-Vol)
04/19/2017 at 12:39, STARS: 0
That’s terrible news.
"McMike" (mcmike)
04/19/2017 at 12:44, STARS: 0
There was a comment in an earlier Oppo post that mentioned how bad they thought it was once they saw a knee on the near side of the cockpit bulkhead in the footage. I never went back to watch it again.
Now I’m glad I didn’t. This is terrible.
"haveacarortwoorthree2" (haveacarortwoorthree2)
04/19/2017 at 12:47, STARS: 0
That’s just awful. Has someone actually published an explanation as to what happened with the stopped car, why it stopped there, etc.?
"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro)
04/19/2017 at 12:49, STARS: 2
Dude! That is just awful. And at 17...!
"Echo51" (echo2047)
04/19/2017 at 12:50, STARS: 0
Spun earliere and was rejoining is what i’ve heard
"Just wear your damn mask..." (jimal)
04/19/2017 at 12:51, STARS: 0
I saw that comment and watched it again. I just assumed that his leg wash pushed back by the pedal box moving backward. I also assumed fractures, but nothing like this. Were these cars not crash tested by the FIA? It was a big hit, but we’ve seen similar crashes in bigger cars.
"whoarder is tellurium" (whoarder)
04/19/2017 at 12:52, STARS: 1
That was my thought as well. He could go on to do other sports car series like Zanardi has done.
"SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie" (sidewaysondirt)
04/19/2017 at 13:19, STARS: 0
I’m kind of wondering the same thing. It’s a lower cost championship, but the monocoque is still CF and built to comply with FIA regulations with anti-intrusion panels. It’s a massive impact, but I hope that the FIA are looking at that monocoque to see if it had prior damage and can find a way to make them safer if the structural failure was entirely due to the accident as opposed to because of a crack from a previous incident.
"TheTurbochargedSquirrel" (thatsquirrel)
04/19/2017 at 13:34, STARS: 0
The nose and monocoque would have been lab tested but a few inches or degrees off and the way the structure reacts to the forces can change big time. It’s possible he hit in just the right way that the main impact structure was deflected instead of crushed. Looking at the video again it looks like he hit slightly left of center of the car ahead with a leftward yaw to his vehicle. The impact absorbing crash structure hit the left rear of the suspension but it looks like most of the force was from the transmission hitting the side of the monocoque around the front mounting points to the front suspension. Then the forces naturally led to everything being pushed back and to the left. Based on the way the steering column was pushed back and how the cars stayed linked together I would say that the transmission of the car that was hit was inside the pedal box.
"Corkscrew'd" (corkscrewd)
04/19/2017 at 14:18, STARS: 1
I hope he recovers and Alex Zanardi gets to meet with him and show him that he can still be very successful despite his injuries.
"gmctavish needs more space" (gmctavish)
04/19/2017 at 17:18, STARS: 0
Well, fuck.
"pip bip - choose Corrour" (hhgttg69)
04/20/2017 at 07:22, STARS: 0
poor bugger.