Well you don't like Hamilton right? So you'd like to see him making mistakes and crashing I'm sure. He's saying that even tho hes not a fan of Massa, he is feeling bad as IF he WAS a fan of him. So it DOES matter.
it is a spring, and if you remember the cartoons, springs can bounce... the spring fell of the BrawnGP with about 180kph... with such a speed it can keep on bouncing for a while.
Wasn't a maleable spring like you see on cartoons. They don't even exist that way, or atleast in Industrial Mechanics I haven't seen springs that loose.
I saw the video that shows the spring pulling out of Barrica's car just once, and don't remember if there was any car in that part that could carry with contact or wind the spring to make it fly again. And remember, the spring pulled out in the start of that "uphill" (edit: I GUESS!), and Massa got hit in the middle of it.
The HANS did its job perfectly. HANS is not only their to minimize the drivers head movement but to decelerate the drivers head movement. All you have to do is compare his head movements to Mika's crash in Adelaide 95.
All the damage done to Massa was striking that object, he probably smacked his face off the front of the helmet with all the energy going through it.
Such a shocking accident to happen only 6 days after Surtees was tragically killed by a stray wheel. Hopefully Massa makes a full recovery and doesn't suffer any long term effects. Mixed stories all over the web, hard to judge what sort of condition he is in
Makes me wander if single seaters should be fitted with ignition kills on heavy impacts. When Surtees hit the barriers, had he not lost a wheel god knows where his car would have gone next. Massa's car was obviously going no where but again his car was bouncing on the rev limiter whilst burried in the tyres.
I've just stumbled across an image of Massa post-accident.
It looks asthough the crash helmet as almost melted in some way. It gave me a sickening feeling when I watched it on TV. All too familiar to the late Henry.
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