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An F1 car overturns, surmounts a tire barrier, and crashes into the spectator fence directly in front of them.
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Walked away with no injuries btw.
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The halo has saved so many lives and to think people were against it at first..
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lookin at you, Romain.
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Lettuce stop you from saving lives.
C
This has some heart.
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I’ll admit when I’m proud of one of mine. This was one of them.
C
You were definitely using your head.
G
I’ve actually always blamed it on the dad joke chip I swear the implant in you when you become a parent.
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Yes, but also the car breaking apart where it should have and proper race clothing played key roles as well. Listening to him describing his thought process of what went on immediately following the incident still brings chills.
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That’s a great interview with Martin
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And noone of you guys posts it ?:c
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Whoopsie. https://youtu.be/QDT-tMtdfSo?si=9TQOLiBhv4E9onRI
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Video related to Grosjean interview above: https://youtu.be/tWz5bALDYpo
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wtf was that music at the end?
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Awful. Ruined the entire mood. All that buildup to a dramatic conclusion and then pure amateur garbage.
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Seen the front half of his car in person, up close. It was a mess (unsurprisingly!)
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And Lewis, Charles and several others in lower series. Probably getting too many to count at this point. RIP Jules Bianchi
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The halo would not have saved Bianchi (and it didn’t save Lewis or Charles). There have absolutely been examples of the halo saving live (Grosjean is the most clear-cut), but it’s wild how any incident where any comes remotely near a drivers head is now assumed to be life saved by the halo…
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That clip where Verstappen’s car comes up over the top of Hamilton’s car and a wheel lands on the halo was shocking…maybe not as much as this, but if the halo wasn’t there, Hamilton would have been extremely injured, if not dead.
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What about Grosjean going through the metal barrier? Halo totally saved him https://www.reddit.com/r/formula1/s/w98h2Az5Yq
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Without the halo he would have taken the upper part of the barrier face first. That would have been a 100% fatal just a few years earlier.
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Jules Bianchi😥
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What a horrible day. Seeing the entire wheel loader move when he slid under it was just awful.
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I thought the same thing. Those things are fucking heavy, so the energy transferred must have been insane.
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Halo wouldn’t have saved Jules
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Sadly, for Jules, it still wouldn’t have been enough to save him. Surprisingly it wasn’t what started the Halo discussions either (this was actually down to the death of Surtees)
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And then the fire suit material
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This is the one that got people to finally shut up about the halo for good. Before, you had people overanalyzing crashes to be like: “Well acktually, the wheel would have missed Leclerc’s head by two centimeters, so drivers should go back to being gladiators”. With the Grosjean crash, there is no doubt that he would have been decapitated without the halo, and it finally silenced the haters.
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Especially with Max still revving the engine, spinning the tire into his face.
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People try to argue that the driveshaft was snapped meaning the wheels were on free motion, but anyone who’s watched the sport for years knows Max didn’t care about Lewis and was only trying to save his own race. “That’s what you get when you don’t leave the space” – Max Verstappen after deliberately spinning his rear wheels on his title rivals head.
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This has been the story time and time again across sports. Hockey players fought against visors that protect the eyes from pucks. They have fought against neck protection for goalies and then other players. They are still fighting against any kind of full visor or cage. People don’t like change even when it can save their damn lives.
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Hockey players are also insane
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They move four times as fast as a normal human in a frictionless plane with knives on their feet, armed with sticks and covered in armor, they have a designated “you can’t fight anyone anymore” prison and they also have a designated “you fight people” position all while shooting a tiny piece of shoe faster than a Honda at each other and the audience, who is protected by *ballistic plexiglass*. Hockey is the best sport and I will come to your house and smoke a cigar in your living room without asking while we debate it if you disagree. I die on this hill.
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Is this pasta? Regardless, in person hockey is awesome. Unfortunately, my former team moved to Winnipeg and disavowed our history. Go Flames!
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I’ve written a few posts that are very similar but no, not pasta :p Hockey is one of the few sports I will willingly and make effort to attend. It’s nonstop violence, then you go get a beer, and then it’s more nonstop violence, repeat. I’ll never understand the appeal of going to a football game. It takes the whole afternoon and there’s only like eight minutes of action in total, broken up with five minute breaks while old men talk to each other and everyone just walks around and points at each other. Hockey is just pure action.
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Check out AFL for the football equivalent. Chaos, rapid pace, intense scrambles and tackles, no pads, no helmets.
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Hockey is battle. Football is war. I love both.
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> Hockey is battle. Football is war That’s a great analogy, I’m gonna borrow that next time my uncle goes on a rant.
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Getting your tooth or teeth knocked out is a rite of passage in hockey and something they actually look forward to when they get to d1 hockey or even just the competitive junior leagues (though they have rules for full face shields). It’s like a war medal for someone in the armed forces. Yes they are absolutely insane.
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Hell, I remember when *helmets* became mandatory in the NHL, and even then, that only applied to new players. All through the 80s, there were still players who were grandfathered in and didn’t play professional fricking hockey with a helmet.
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It’s still like this with visors I believe. Older players who were in the league prior to them being mandatory don’t have to wear them.
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At one point goal tenders didn’t wear masks.
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I lived in Buffalo, but wasn’t at that game, when Malarchuk got his throat sliced, and it boggles my mind that most of the goalies 25+ years later still don’t use any significant neck protection equipment.
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What is the halo, for those of use who don’t know anything about f1
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The short version is it’s a little overhead safety device that was added to Formula cars several years ago. At the time people were not happy about it and claiming it would ruin the sport and make it too hard for drivers to see and harder to get in and out and yadayada. Even a lot of actual F1 drivers both active and retired were super against it. Notably Nikki Lauda, who was seriously disfigured in a racing accident in the 70s and was always a big supporter of reducing the danger of the sport (in his era a couple fatalities per season was just business as usual). It was made mandatory anyway and arguably saved several lives pretty much immediately and everyone instantly changed their tune and became a huge fan of it.
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It’s a little roll cage above the drivers helmet. Their heads used to poke out of the chassis before an incredibly tragic and avoidable incident with a crane vehicle on track in 2014
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This crash especially, cause the roll bar actually broke when the car landed upside down. So if it wasnt for the halo, the car would have been slidong Zhou’s helmet.
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Wheel tethers as well, imo. Wreck like this could have easily hurled a wheel over that fence and into the grandstands.
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