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Crash999, on 2010-08-11 16:11:32, said:
This is a pretty far-fetched scenario. What's more likely is the person who is losing suddenly benefits from some performance boosts that are somehow overlooked by scrutineers.
As for safety, I've not been to the smaller tracks in Thailand but the Bira circuit is comparable to many circuits in the US with proper gating, barriers, and adequate runoff for the classes of cars that compete on it.
As for safety, I've not been to the smaller tracks in Thailand but the Bira circuit is comparable to many circuits in the US with proper gating, barriers, and adequate runoff for the classes of cars that compete on it.
Surely you jest regarding Bira safety compared to the U.S. what tracks have you been too?? It's about 20 years behind in safety and in safety training of workers, they never remove the broken down cars from danger zones and just fly the yellow preventing passing on a track already severely limited, besides more potential damage to competitors cars and other cars.
The wall at the end of the front straight into turn 1 is way too low with no safety fence and only about 6 inches thick with numerous structural cracks already and about a 30ft drop off a hill potentially on to spectators and even possibly back onto the track at the bottom, already there has been some very close calls where a car backed into that wall and almost went over it last season.. There is little to no crowd control fencing either, the entire paddock is open to the track with only a 1 meter high wall with no catch fence separating the track from the spectators and crew to stop anyone from entering the track or any flying parts from entering the paddock..
I was at a race there some years ago when a car broke down exiting turn 2 and the flag man was waving both the yellow flag and the pass flag at the same time to other cars as the broken down car was coming to a stop. The course workers never even motioned the driver to move his car as far off the racing line as possible so I did it as he was about to park it right on the track edge when he saw me motion him he moved over close to the wall. While I give credit for some changes over the years and some improvements really the list is endless and they have miles to go before they even come close to western standards and forget the other tracks mentioned they're all death traps if not for drivers for spectators potentially...
