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mingmarwoc

Posted: November 06, 2005 07:43 am

Unaustralian patrol

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Pos Team Laps Time Gap First

1 FRA FRANCE 35 1:00:54.068 -
2 GBR GREAT BRITAIN 35 1:00:56.547 +2.479
3 SUI SWITZERLAND 35 1:00:57.086 +3.018
4 NED NETHERLANDS 35 1:00:57.593 +3.525
5 MAL MALAYSIA 35 1:00:58.955 +4.887
6 AUS AUSTRALIA 35 1:00:59.499 +5.431
7 POR PORTUGAL 35 1:01:00.070 +6.002
8 NZL NEW ZEALAND 35 1:01:02.989 +8.921
9 BRA BRAZIL 35 1:01:03.108 +9.040
10 USA USA 35 1:01:03.896 +9.828
11 PAK PAKISTAN 35 1:01:05.010 +10.942
12 LIB LEBANON 35 1:01:07.071 +13.003
13 IND INDIA 35 1:01:08.343 +14.275
14 IRL IRELAND 35 1:01:26.140 +32.072
15 CAN CANADA 26 41:56.866 9 Laps
16 JPN JAPAN 25 40:38.862 10 Laps
17 CHN CHINA 22 36:23.428 13 Laps
18 AUT AUSTRIA 17 26:53.603 18 Laps
19 CZE CZECH REPUBLIC 17 26:54.072 18 Laps
20 RUS RUSSIA 7 10:02.572 28 Laps
21 MEX MEXICO 7 10:02.963 28 Laps
22 GER GERMANY 7 11:33.270 28 Laps
23 ITA ITALY 6 38:23.656 29 Laps
24 RSA SOUTH AFRICA 1 1:37.225 34 Laps

I Didn't end up going..... i've got my last ever uni exams thsi week and thought i'd be boring and study instead.

Apparently there was a massive crash with the Japanese driver........ another granduate from the Takuma Sato "racing" school??? If anyone could find this it would be a great clip. ( Race just ended, i haven't found it yet)

France really seem to be doing well.... as Britan..........the dutch even put in a good performance. I saw an article that the french and dutch are sharing data.

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The only good thing to come out of England was Australians

Gav	Posted: November 06, 2005 11:47 am
F1 Driver Group: Members Posts: 6642 Member No.: 4 Joined: January 19, 2004	It's on TBK in the Crash Videos section. It was a rather big crash, yes...... clikeh -------------------- VaderTrophy.com

Eric Pipes	Posted: November 06, 2005 12:01 pm
Rally Driver Group: Admin Posts: 2714 Member No.: 9 Joined: January 19, 2004	Which track is that? -------------------- More photos @ Cambrian Images

Gav	Posted: November 06, 2005 12:04 pm
F1 Driver Group: Members Posts: 6642 Member No.: 4 Joined: January 19, 2004	Eastern Creek. -------------------- VaderTrophy.com

Ellis	Posted: November 06, 2005 01:27 pm
NASCAR Red-neck Group: Members Posts: 3652 Member No.: 43 Joined: February 15, 2004	Stayed up till 5am watching it. Alot of fun, bt again, a bit of n00bness --------------------

ClarkF1

Posted: November 06, 2005 01:28 pm

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f*ckin hell....it looks like what kept happening to me in GP2....the front half of the car split off from the rear.

QUOTE (a1gp.com)

06/11/2005 - Eastern Creek, 6 November – A1 Grand Prix proved, for the second time, safety is one of the most important factors in the build of its 3.4 litre V8-engined race cars. At Eastern Creek it was the car entered by A1 Team Japan that suffered a crash that totally destroyed the car but left the driver Hayanari Shimoda unhurt. It was on lap 26 that the car, travelling at high speed, went off the track and crashed into a wall in turn one.

For a few heart-stopping moments while the rescue crews arrived at the scene the driver’s condition was unknown but it rapidly became clear the tub of the car had held up amazingly to the force of the accident. Shimoda was momentarily knocked unconscious but by the time he was extracted from the cockpit and taken to the medical centre he was conversing with the medical staff. A preliminary examination by Dr Paul Trafford, the A1 Grand Prix Medical Delegate, found no further injuries but the Japanese driver was transferred by helicopter to Westmead Hospital for a CT scan and further precautionary checks.

Dr Trafford complimented CAMS, the circuit medical staff, Meditrak and the marshals for their professional handling of the incident.

The race itself was won by A1 Team France, bringing their tally of victories up to six out of eight. A1 Team Great Britain matched their previous highest place from EuroSpeedway Lausitz with a second in Australia and A1 Team Switzerland claimed the final podium position.

At the start of the Feature race, it was the Portuguese car from second on the grid that was away first leading into the turn one. A bad start from France meant that at the end of lap one they were lying second with Brazil third.

The first retirement of the race came from A1 Team South Africa when their car went off the track after swerving to avoid A1 Team Italy on lap one and hit the barrier. The teams started their obligatory pit stop sequence quite early with Ireland pitting first at the end of lap two, having dropped down from fourth on the grid to twelfth. The order at the top of the pack stayed the same until A1 Team Portugal incurred a drive through penalty on lap eight for a false start, a mistake which cost them the lead as France took the opportunity to re-gain the top spot.

Turn two struck again on lap 8 when Mexico and Russia clashed and both went off. A1 Team Lebanon narrowly avoided them, going off the track but managing to continue the race. The safety car was deployed and those who had not pitted at the start seized their chance. At the end of lap nine A1 Team’s France and Great Britain both went into the pits putting Lebanon in front. With no overtaking under the safety car, they withheld their position until the safety car peeled off at the end of lap 12 and then the team’s moment of glory was over as France and Great Britain overtook but they were still in the top three at the end of lap 13.

A1 Team Brazil were then the subject of a drive through penalty for a pit lane infringement, dropping them from eighth to tenth, but the safety car was due to be deployed yet again when the Austrian and Czech Republic cars collided on lap 18. When racing resumed again at the end of lap 21, the Irish car was too quick off the mark starting to overtake before crossing the start finish line. For this the team received a 25 second penalty which was applied after the end of the race and dropped them down from eighth to fourteenth.

France was again able to increase its lead at the front of the field and was pulling away from A1 Team Great Britain when the Japanese car had its accident on lap 26. The safety crews worked as hard as they could to remove the damaged car but when the safety car pulled off at the end of lap 33, the one hour rule would only allow for two further laps which meant a 35 rather than a 40 lap race.

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Gav	Posted: November 06, 2005 01:55 pm
F1 Driver Group: Members Posts: 6642 Member No.: 4 Joined: January 19, 2004	I don't know they can praise the safety. It was a relatively low-force accident, yet the roll-hoop failed completely. A taller driver would not have been unhurt. -------------------- VaderTrophy.com

Ellis	Posted: November 06, 2005 03:10 pm
NASCAR Red-neck Group: Members Posts: 3652 Member No.: 43 Joined: February 15, 2004	Theres not much you can do. The car went headfirst into the wall at 160mph. Its the same accident that killed greg moore, and this guy walks away unhurt --------------------

Gav	Posted: November 06, 2005 03:20 pm
F1 Driver Group: Members Posts: 6642 Member No.: 4 Joined: January 19, 2004	The car did not go into the wall headfirst, it went in engine first and swung around. The rollhoop was broken before it ever got to the wall on the tarmac after the gravel, probably when exiting the gravel, Diniz style. The only similarity to Moores crash was that it rolled (almost in Greg's case) before hitting the wall, and the fact the car snapped in 2 - something they're supposed to do. The corner is 160mph perhaps, but he lost around 90mph in gravel. -------------------- VaderTrophy.com

Ellis	Posted: November 06, 2005 05:25 pm
NASCAR Red-neck Group: Members Posts: 3652 Member No.: 43 Joined: February 15, 2004	nah looking at the photos, the rool hoop was intact when the car was upside down and it never made a major impact with the ground after thta. It went into the wall with a full rool hoop and the roolhoop was crushed there and then. There was no debris from it in the gravel, only in the wall. --------------------

Gav	Posted: November 06, 2005 05:34 pm
F1 Driver Group: Members Posts: 6642 Member No.: 4 Joined: January 19, 2004	Nah, the front never really hit the wall - check out the video, you can see it rotating still just after impact. The roll-over hoop is visable when the car is upside down over the gravel, but it lost it's clearly been sheered, not crushed. From what I can see, the drivers cell never went anywhere near the wall. Remember that 2nd to last photo isn't as it's about to hit the wall, it's after impact. There's a huge gap missing in the sequence, presumably as his rapid-shot mode thing reached it's limit. //Edit: actually, if you watch the replay video frame-by-frame, you can see that of the front half of the car, only the nose really hit the wall. -------------------- VaderTrophy.com

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