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When he almost got hit in the head by a tire.
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Oooh, nasty. That's how Henry Surtees died. Someone will get a big fine for the tether breaking, probably, because loose wheels are one of the biggest dangers left in F1.
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The tethers did their job, the tire came off the wheel.
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Oh, right, that's a fair bit less serious. The mass of the tyre alone is quite a large proportion of the wheel's total weight, but then again it's deformable so the impact ought to be less.