Stewards investigating Red Bull....

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Stewards investigating Red Bull....

Postby Mictheslik » Fri Mar 21, 2008 5:08 pm

Following DC's wheel coming off stewards are investigating the safety of the car and may stop it racing on Sunday....

http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2008/3/7532.html

Video of incident

Good job I didn't predict him this week :D

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Re: Stewards investigating Red Bull....

Postby Craig. » Fri Mar 21, 2008 5:22 pm

thing is, watching the incident live, it just looked like he ran too fast into the corner carried on and hit the rather high curb which would have been enough to shatter the suspension, there was no sign of anything breaking before hand, but then DC was looking round the back of the car afterwards. So talk about a minor thing visually causing a pretty nasty crash. More worrying was the tether holding the front wheel on snapped.
Red bull will be fine no doubt.
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Re: Stewards investigating Red Bull....

Postby MWISimmer » Fri Mar 21, 2008 5:23 pm

They (Red Bull) are putting the failures down to human error, on the cold adhesive that keeps the suspension together.
In winter testing they had no problems with "high mileage" parts and according to Autosport they will use them, as opposed to new parts so should be OK.
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