Chinese GP 2010 - Shanghai

[mx_tifoso]

I heard that it was a new material.

[Pandamasque]

Damn! I enjoyed radio5 on iplayer for 2 races and now after practice 1 BBC enebled the IP filter And their java based thingy doesn't work through proxies.

[piast9]

I don't think that the suspension broke. At these photos you can see that the wheels separated from the hubs. The left upright is hanging loose, I don't know what happened to the right one. Maybe it is the whole hub/upright that had a failure. Strange and very dangerous...

[mx_tifoso]

... Maybe it is the whole hub/upright that had a failure. ...

That has already been established.

[Dipl-Ing.]

Morning guys!
I love the way Buemi was still trying to turn after both wheels had come off.
Nice to see people pushing the limits and that nobody got hurt.

[Pandamasque]

Now we know what "driving the wheels off the car" means.

video here

[raymondu999]

Looks like Mercedes power and that F-duct doing its job down the back straight then. Interestingly I saw at one of the FPs that Kobayashi was fastest through the speedtraps? Ferrari power with the F-duct. Does anyone know the difference in times that the Merc boys got with/without the f-duct? As well as the speedtrap difference?

[djones]

Looks like Mercedes power and that F-duct doing its job down the back straight then.

Is there some speed trap data somewhere?

[nacho]

I think before the Saubers were quite off in the speed traps, how about today?

[Hangaku]

"If The Boss and Fred start in their usual grid spots They can race with the RB's!"

"The Boss"? Bruce Springsteen has moved into F1?

"The Boss" appears to be Lewis Hamilton. Why? I have no idea. But I think you're onto something. Look at his song titles:

Lost In The Flood - Obviously about last years Chinese GP
Thunder Road & Born To Run - definately motorsport themed
Something In The Night - a song about night races

I'm sure there are few more clues but I think you've found him out! =D>

Just bitter that his huge-jawed ex-F1 compatriot wasn't able to do what Lewis is doing.

It's ok andrew, you've made your feelings quite apparent by now. Get over it

[Pandamasque]

offtopic alert

"The Boss" appears to be Lewis Hamilton. Why? I have no idea. But I think you're onto something. Look at his song titles:

Lost In The Flood - Obviously about last years Chinese GP
Thunder Road & Born To Run - definately motorsport themed
Something In The Night - a song about night races

I'm sure there are few more clues but I think you've found him out! =D>

There a whole motorsport related music pun thread right there.

[Hangaku]

Get it while it's hot:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQZrmBoRjKY

[roost89]

I heard about the Buemi incident on BBC this morning. However was only able to watch 20minutes of it as I had to get to work. But they did discuss it a wee bit. I can't recall all of what they said but they were saying the loads on the tethers were greater than 5000kg so the tethers just could not hold the wheels on.

I must say, that'd be an incredibly frightening failure to have! Almost 200mph and seeing the wheels bouncing up in front of you!

[raymondu999]

Any youtubes of Alonso's engine booboo?

[Giblet]

I just woke up and saw about Buemi's accident. I guess wheel tethers are uselss when the wheels actually explode into nothing.