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floydfreak wrote:I have known and heard about the crash Pedro Lamy had in testing at Silverstone in 1994 but only now have seen pics from that crash. What was left of the car was in a pedestrian tunnel

He was extremely lucky to survive that only broke 2 knee caps and a thigh and was out of racing for over a year

Truly shocking, Johnny Herbert was following on track and when he came around Abbey corner, he found that there'd been a huge crash but had no idea where his team mate was. It wasn't until he stopped, got out and searched that he found Lamy in the tunnel.

God knows how he survived, truly horrific accident, and one caused by the team having to hack pieces out of the diffuser to meet the FIA's hastily introduced new regs following Imola (which put too much load on the rear wing and caused it to break off at high speed).

Just shows the death traps the early 1994 cars were with the drastic changes from 1993. JJ Lehto was out for the opening races due to a testing crash then there was Imola, then Monaco with Karl Wendlinger's career-ending crash then Spain when Andrea Montermini broke his heel and left leg. Could of easily been 4 deaths that year including Lamy and Wendlinger

floydfreak wrote:Just shows the death traps the early 1994 cars were with the drastic changes from 1993. JJ Lehto was out for the opening races due to a testing crash then there was Imola, then Monaco with Karl Wendlinger's career-ending crash then Spain when Andrea Montermini broke his heel and left leg. Could of easily been 4 deaths that year including Lamy and Wendlinger

Jean Alesi missed several races due to injury also, which was why Larini was driving the car at Imola.

Let's not forget that Lamy and Lehto could have also both been seriously injured in the start line crash at Imola.

Not to mention the huge accident in Brazil (caused largely by Eddie Irvine driving like a complete yob which earned him a lengthy ban) which could easily have killed Martin Brundle after a tyre struck his head.

Vermi Claus wrote:

floydfreak wrote:Just shows the death traps the early 1994 cars were with the drastic changes from 1993. JJ Lehto was out for the opening races due to a testing crash then there was Imola, then Monaco with Karl Wendlinger's career-ending crash then Spain when Andrea Montermini broke his heel and left leg. Could of easily been 4 deaths that year including Lamy and Wendlinger

Jean Alesi missed several races due to injury also, which was why Larini was driving the car at Imola.

Let's not forget that Lamy and Lehto could have also both been seriously injured in the start line crash at Imola.

Not to mention the huge accident in Brazil (caused largely by Eddie Irvine driving like a complete yob which earned him a lengthy ban) which could easily have killed Martin Brundle after a tyre struck his head.

Forgot about that Brazil crash with Brundle and Irvine & true the Imola start line crash could of been more serious

Jost Capito is retiring/pushed-out from Williams:

https://www.williamsf1.com/posts/e4627d ... nouncement

Ahead of the 2023 FIA Formula One World Championship season, Williams Racing announces that, after two years at the helm of the Grove-based outfit as CEO and Team Principal, Jost Capito is stepping aside. Technical Director FX Demaison will leave his post after joining in 2021.
Williams Racing will announce its new Team Principal and Technical Director in due course.

Jost Capito: "It has been a huge privilege to lead Williams Racing for the last two seasons and to lay the foundations for the turnaround of this great team. I look forward to watching the team as it continues on its path to future success."

Also if anyone has been on Twitter today seen that people are still going on about what happened last year. Get over it ffs its been a year

I mean it was effectively the death of F1 as a legitimate sport.

floydfreak wrote:Also if anyone has been on Twitter today seen that people are still going on about what happened last year. Get over it ffs its been a year

It is time to let it go now i think, it was a monumental cock up yes, but F1 has had many over the years so it's hardly anything new.

I agree i saw it and was like really facepalm. Though loads of others were saying the same thing shut up and move on. Yet still they were not having any of it

It was one of the lowest points in the sport's history and it's caused a major schism in how the sport is perceived since it happened. As the years go by, it will gradually diminish as a talking point naturally - but you can't dictate to fans how long they have to discuss moments of that magnitude.

It still only feels like yesterday tbh. I don't really understand the urgency in trying to get people to 'shut up' about it.

TV Dinner wrote:Fred Vasseur is leaving Alfa to replace Binottto.

Ferrari fans in six months time.

floydfreak wrote:I agree i saw it and was like really facepalm. Though loads of others were saying the same thing shut up and move on. Yet still they were not having any of it

I disagree. It was a monumental strawberry float up and a real low for any sport. The criticism should be maintained for as long as possible so it doesn't happen again.

twitter.com/alfaromeoorlen/status/1602608880810430466

twitter.com/McLarenF1/status/1602608104734179330

Team principal silly season!

Didn’t Seidl work for Audi in the WEC? Could be hoping to front their F1 effort.

Hope it works out for Vasseur but wouldn’t be surprised if he’s given the boot in a couple of years.

all change at the top eh

When I saw Siedl was moving, I was assuming Capito was going to McLaren. Where has Stella worked previously?

Most notable previous experience seems to be as Schumacher and raikonnens race engineer at Ferrari

Look at the track layout on a proper street circuit