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@superdelphinus Love the beast Doesn't die. Is a good documentary about Eric Bana and his love of big fucking American muscle cars. Helmet impact, not good. Can't see her making it out of a crash like that without a serious life long injury  Edited by urban at 02:52:49 04-07-2012 |
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urban 13,009 posts
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Rusty_M 6,815 posts
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Registered 11 years agoShe supposedly regained consciousness, which is something. -
shamblemonkee 17,897 posts
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Registered 13 years agoSilverstone looking like could be a wet race: http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2637827
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Registered 12 years agoMeh. It's enough of a lottery lately without adding heavy rain. They'll just end up spending half the race behind the safety car. -
shamblemonkee 17,897 posts
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Registered 13 years agoRain would negate the tyre differential to an extent and just give us good old slipperyness, so long as like you say they grow some balls and don't sit behind the SC. 
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Registered 15 years agoKnockhill is a great track! -
brokenkey 9,566 posts
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Registered 16 years agourban wrote:
Well Massa came back as good as new*
@superdelphinus
Love the beast
Doesn't die. Is a good documentary about Eric Bana and his love of big fucking American muscle cars.
Helmet impact, not good. Can't see her making it out of a crash like that without a serious life long injury
*apart from the usual large crash lack of confidence that impacts most drivers who've been involved in very big crashes. Some exceptions of course -
jellyhead wrote:
Hehe sorry, i been reading a lot of frankie boyle treats recently.
Knockhill is a great track!
My boss as done a track day on his bike at knockhill. said its mental so up and down.
Really like Cadwell park as well, and oulton park for that matter. -
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Registered 8 years agoUrgh, statement from Marussia that de Villota has lost an eye. Grim. -
mad_caddy 3,413 posts
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Registered 14 years agoThat is grim, and also very sad news. -
jellyhead 24,346 posts
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Registered 15 years agoSad news indeed. I wish her a speedy recovery and rehabilitation. -
elephantjuice 1,051 posts
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Registered 8 years agoThat is pretty tragic really but from what I've read it sounded like it could have been a lot worse. -
shamblemonkee 17,897 posts
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Registered 13 years agoA totally bizarre and sad accident -
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Registered 11 years agoGreat that she's alive but awful about her eye. -
mal 29,326 posts
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Registered 16 years agoIs she out of the danger zone now then? Last I heard it was still looking life-threatening. -
DanB24 5,720 posts
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Registered 11 years agoShe's said to be "Critical but stable".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-18711127 -
urban 13,009 posts
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Registered 14 years agoHorrific accident, judging by the small amount of information being released I can imagine she has significant Neurological and facial damage, Pure speculation though.
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shamblemonkee 17,897 posts
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Registered 13 years agoi can only guess that if she was completing a run and coming in to stop that she may have lifted her visor as she came in hence the scale of the injuries - if the reported speed of impact is correct? -
DanB24 5,720 posts
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Registered 11 years agoI was thinking that must have been the case too re the visor. -
superdelphinus 9,781 posts
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Registered 13 years agoMy dad actually works at addenbrooks. I saw him today on his way back from holiday, there's a high chance he would have been involved in her surgery weirdly enough. Sadly he was explaining to me that there would be a high chance of secondary optical damage with that sort of damage (this is before I knew), but described that as almost a "best-outcome" scenario.
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Nth 3,138 posts
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Registered 9 years agoOne theory is she stopped and let revs drop, the anti-stall kicked in and applied 50% throttle. If she was still in gear it might explain why she was caught out, so maybe a mix of a car glitch and driver inexperience?
I have to say, the press release was atrociously written, easy to think she was dead until you got to the last 2 words:
"However it is with great sadness that I must report that, due to the injuries she sustained, Maria has lost her right eye" -
superdelphinus 9,781 posts
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Registered 13 years agoI'm not sure I buy the inexperienced thing really. Sure she was relatively inexperienced but it's not like it was the first time she'd driven an f1 car -
Nth 3,138 posts
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Registered 9 years agoI didn't mean basic ability to drive I meant getting to know all the systems on these increasingly complex cars, apparently the anti-stall often catches people out. -
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urban 13,009 posts
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Registered 14 years agoSKY are showing their true colours over this London race thing today. Georgie talking it up, showing the segment once again.
Asking people 'is there room for a second British grand prix?
Anyway, one was dead set against it (Derek warwick) and the other was of the opinion (johnny Herbert) that it wouldn't happen anyway so why worry?
I understand Derek is head of a foundation who got bullied by Bernie into buy the British f1 at a price they weren't happy with and now are being told hey! We're thinking about creating another race really close by you won't benefit from!
Georgie however was not letting off. I'd say it was entirely clear that she had a producer down her ear pushing hard.
Despicable.
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thats a bit shit really, i guess theres a lot in it for sky if they did. soom poor team would get brought out and become sky pro racing team and buy everything and everyone...
as a one off, and say rotate it in the likes of other cities say as the european grand prix it could work, but i don't want any more street circuits.
Anyway the red bull looks like it be driving through a mud field this weekend, but its actually loads of small images of people montaged into the paintwork. -
Logged in to do predictions for this weekend, decided I had absolutely no idea what might happen, and logged out again.
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