WilliamsF1 wrote:What is the point of the rear bumper if cars still get launched into the air?
Unfortunately nothing will ever stop race cars from climbing over each other. If NASCAR and BTCC cars still manages to find a way to shoot over each other there's nothing IndyCar can ever do. The bumpers just help that a little bit but IndyCars will continue to launch over each other with that kind of accidents. After a certain impact speed with those particular sections of the cars colliding, the wheels will always touch each other and that will always launch the car. The bumpers just make these kinds of accidents a little more rare.
munudeges wrote:until major wholesale changes are made, starting with attitudes and behaviour, you are going to continue to see major accidents and drivers hurt and killed in Indy I'm afraid.
Unless IndyCar starts going to Tilkedome tracks and completely remove all the ovals you'll never remove major incidents in IndyCar even with the professionalism of F1. You already get major incidents and shunts with Gp2 and F1 at Monaco.
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It's the exact same type of accident. Only at Houston that corner is a lot quicker than Monaco's Tabac. Grosjean was lucky Monaco is a slow track.
That said, IndyCar needs to be a lot more conscientious about spectators and needs start updating street track facilities a little more. The only thing IndyCar did wrong at Houston was letting the spectators get too close on the outside of a fast turn and having a fencing that wasn't really up to standards. Otherwise the shunt at Houston is a typical open wheel street course crash