Yep...I was at the track in Adelaide when he crashed and had an emergency tracheotomy trackside. He was in the Royal Adelaide Hospital for ages recovering. Great driver, good chap too.
1995 (I was 25)
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Now this is some old-school F1 that I love, and with legendary names that I'd once forgotten. But bugger me, that looks like a painful incident.
I've been watching F1 since 1979 and have loved all the different eras of it. The sport has changed so much, the personalities. It's been really interesting to see the changes. It will be interesting to see where it goes from 2022 when the regulations change too.
It's true, they all have their own characters, though I do miss the old V12s howling around the circuit, echoing off the stands. Time change, but it's still a lot of fun today, no doubt. I heard that they're changing the regs in 2022, so fingers crossed it won't ruin it.
They're changing the regulations to bring the cars closer together, reducing budgets and complicated aerodynamics, changing wheel size and stuff too. I think it should be good as theoretically the cars will be able to run closer behind one another due to a deduced amount of turbulent air coming off the aero on the car in front.
It was meant to be in 2021, but Covid fucked that up. Now 2022. See the video below.
Ah, cheers for that. Hopefully, this'll mean more wheel to wheel, and bumper to bumper action. Plus, I'm hoping that changing the regs on spending would make the teams a bit more even. Maybe now, Alfa Sauber could catch up to the big boys.
That's the plan behind it all, so could be good. You know, Mercedes spend over $500,000,000 per season to run two cars. Five hundred million. It's far too much and other teams, Williams and AlfaTauri, Haas etc. just cannot match it. So, some equalisation will be good I think.
Wow, I didn't know it was that much! It really is a huge fortune to spend, and there's loads of other smaller teams that ought to be at a natural disadvantage. No matter how good the driver is, if your car isn't up to snuff with the big leagues, it's inconceivable to win. Keen to see how 2022 will balance everyone out.