F1 Chinese practice bizarre accident!

Oh yes, I caught this on the news this morning. New pants would certainly be in order.

That could take some explaining, but on the plus side no one was hurt and lots of airtime for the sponsors :D
 
:eek: In all the years I've been watching F1 I've never seen an incident like that! Thank goodness for the long run off area!
 
Upright failure apparently. The right one went first and that meant the loading on the left snapped it almost at the same time. The reason the tethers never worked is due to the fact the tethers were attached to the parts that failed. Thats a really unsafe desgin imo.
 
From Autosport.com:

An investigation by the team has concluded that the incident was caused by a front right upright failure - which was a new design introduced for this weekend's race. Exactly what went wrong to cause the malfunction has not yet been established, however.

Once the right upright failed, the load on the left side component was too great for it to handle which is why that failed simultaneously.
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One of the wheels went over the catch fencing apparently, spectators were having their pictures taken with it.
Good job it was quiet or it could have been a lot more serious.
 
Duplicate threads merged :)
 
Jim.R said:
One of the wheels went over the catch fencing apparently, spectators were having their pictures taken with it.
Good job it was quiet or it could have been a lot more serious.
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knowing how the locals operate with producing products for the western market, expect to see F1 style wheels and tyres online soon!
 
:eek:Never seen anything like this happen before
Bob
 
Just saw this while watching the highlights, that is so weird that both sets of suspension failed at the same time! :S
 
Matt Rimmer said:
Upright failure apparently. The right one went first and that meant the loading on the left snapped it almost at the same time. The reason the tethers never worked is due to the fact the tethers were attached to the parts that failed. Thats a really unsafe desgin imo.
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There is only so much you can design in, if they tether them elsewhere there is a chance that bit will fail.

I will echo Paul, in all the years os watching F1 never seen anything quit so bizarre looking :eek:
 
I've never known TWO uprights break either ... I suspect somewhere in Faenza there's a fabricator busy fabricating his CV this weekend! :lol:

But then I go back to when all Formula One cars used Alford and Alder cast iron uprights as fitted to Triumph Heralds ... where's Yantorsen when we need him? :whistling:
 
It would be unlikely to happen during a corner. Where it failed it was maximum downforce, maximum speed and also maximum retardation. One failed, the massively increased loading on the other caused it to fail in sympathy.
 
Love how he still tried to steer it away from the armco when he has no wheels.

Very lucky it failed at that circuit where they have such large amounts of run off, and that definately shows the merits of gravel over just tarmac for stopping cars.
 
Yv said:
There is only so much you can design in, if they tether them elsewhere there is a chance that bit will fail.

I will echo Paul, in all the years os watching F1 never seen anything quit so bizarre looking :eek:
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They should have the tethers attached to a solid part of the car. If the FIA made it so the tether had to be attached to the chassis as part of the safety of open wheel racing then I doubt even with a collision that wheels would be flying. I still have the image of Henry Surtees in my mind. There will always be tragic accidents and it was lucky on numerous counts that Sebastian is ok and that no spectators were hurt.
 
i thought it looked like the front wing failed and smashed into the wheels when i first saw it , very scary indeed :eek:
 
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