Serious Formula 2 Accident

[Argento Reloaded 1]

Despite the obvious idiocy of not including the safety measure on lower categories, truth is that no system will ever prove to be 100% safe.

The wheel theter system is actually very good. The common sight of wheels flying around in every accident is something unimaginable today.

Other than that, it is impossible to device a method to avoid this kind of accidents. All you can do is minimize them. Cars need to be very collapsable to absorb impact, the d#ckpit (ha! I avoided censorship there!) needs to be strong to ensure the drivers survivability. Any change on a safety measure brings uncertainities on others. That's just how systems work.

Then again, having a simple, cheap and effective system like the wheel tether and not applying it to the lower categories is just criminal if such is the case.

As I said before and after saw the accident the track is main factor of the tragedy: in a modern track with the correct exits for uncrontrolled cars it never happenned! The car hit by its left side a bended guar rail to protect a tree! i f only the guard rail were straight right the car never lost its tyres!

[riseofstars 0]

f2 cars had wheel tethers....Click here to read it..

[Quiet One 15]

Quote from the article on f1-live:

"After the death of a marshal in an F1 race in 2001 rule revisions introduced a wheel tether system to stop wheels flying off after an accident. This system was later adopted by IRL but is not in use in lower formula

[JHS 1]

f2 cars had wheel tethers....Click here to read it..

Well, obviously they didn't work well this time.

[Rainmaster 7]

I'm late to this thread but I'd like to echo the thoughts of everybody here, Rest In Peace Henry Surtees.