In F1 racing, has the safety car ever been involved in an accident?
813489
Seems to me there was some kind of incident with the Safety Car a few years back.  Sorry, I don't remember what it was, or where it happened.   The 1971 Indy 500 Pace Car certainly comes to mind though, plowing into a Grandstand causing numerous serious injuries.
585678
Try Formula1.com - they claim to have live coverage.   Although I have not tried it out, have a look tomorrow during the Monaco GP\n\nGood luck!
167771
The owner of a car is not legally responsible for accidents that happen with it, just the driver, unless there was some sort of contributory negligence, like you knew the breaks didn't work and didn't tell him, etc. The title's kind of irrelevant.
432400
It is important to distinguish between the driver and the machine. \n\nLet us not forget Schumacher has invested 9 years at Ferrari and that has yeilded 4 back to back world titles for them. He joined Ferrari at a time, when they were dogs on the circuit, with last championship win coming at 1979. Schumacher had the the option of joining Mclaren but chose the difficult route of coming to ferrari and building it up.\n\nFrom 96-99, Ferrari suffered as they continue to develop the car, but Michael continued with his relentless spirit to make the car competitive and finish in the top 3. \n\nIt paid of between 2000-04, as 4 back to back tittles followed. \n\nWhat happened in 2005? Well, two things.\n\n1. The other teams caught up on the development. Remember technology and manpower is what makes this sport, so lead time are never permanent.\n\n2. FIA rule changes, wherein car were forced to race with one set of tyres. This rule change hit the ferrari badly, but even then, Schumacher finished third last year, given that he had a dog of the car.\n\nThis year the F248 is more competitive and has more powerful engine. Couple with the tyre changing norms, i think Ferrari are competitive.\n\nAnd i think this sunday at Nurburgring, will demonstrate the improved Ferrari.\n\nMichael was never off form, but now he has a car that he drive the rubber of the tyres. \n\nMark my words, the Meister is back!
105733
I bet you 10 points nobody answers this with a correct answer.  Who knows that that is?  I mean its a carbon fiber part so I would say the wongs on a Formula 1 car.
536211
The F1 car.\n\nJeremy Clarkson proved it.
706678
A cause de Jean-Louis Schlesser et de sa Williams!!!!!! Et c'etais lors du GP d'Italie remporté par Gerhard Berger sur sa Ferrari quelques jours après le décés du Comandatore!!!! On aura pas Franklin aussi facilement: http://franklinslife.skyblog.com/ !!!!! Je sais quand meme compter deux par deux et lasser mes chaussures!!!!!!!!
8562
Just a quirk of history.  As to safety, there's really no difference.  In places where folks drive on "the other side," the driver is also "on the other side."  This means that visibility remains the same.
1168476
It was the first victory and double podium (the second car finished 3rd) for a diesel-powered car in Le Mans.\nFor next year, a whole bunch of teams have announced that they are also preparing diesel cars. So this might be a turning point in motorsport.
604305
I think there is some truth to your question, I've watched that race more than 10 times and I'm always surprised to see him go straight at the tamburello. It happened on the first quick corner of the first lap (there was that safety car period because of the Pedro Lamy incident). So I agree with you. I think Frank Williams had something to do with his death. I hate that crippled fuck.
1177011
You are correct in telling those fans of the simpletons chasing their tails around left hand turns to not bother.\nFormula1:\nMichael Schumacher.  Although I think there are several that deserve recognition.\n\nLeMans:\nJacky Ickx even though Tom Kristensen just bested his absolute win record.\n\nWRC:\nTimo Makkinen or Carlos Sainz\n\nI agree with Tuzio Nuvolari being the best all around of all time.\n\nBTW:  YES.  NASCAR is a motorsport, BUT we are talking about REAL racing, not a contrived motorsport show.  Why does NASCAR still use a carbourettor????  GEEZ, that hasn't been on a real "stock car" since the 80's.\n\nDale Earnhardt deserved to die for being stupid in not wearing all available safety equipment!\n\nWatch an F1 race and marvel at the crashes that those guys walk away from.\n\nDid you know that Jeff Gordon took a ride in a BMW F1 car and hurt himself just by driving the car properly and below it's performance limit?\n\nWhen he hit the brakes he hurt his eyeballs.\nWhen he turned he hurt his back and neck.
822097
Uh, the question is about F1, not those POS backbreaking crapwagons the IRL calls racing cars. And, please, get a grip on reality. The Honda IRL engine isn't pulling anything near 20,000 rpm; their engines are rev-limited in the 10,500 rpm neighborhood.\n\nF1 cars use unleaded gasoline which must comply with EU standards and cannot contain any additives not found in commercial gasolines for road cars.\n\nChamp Car uses methanol. The IRL has used methanol in the past (and has never used gasoline), but went to a 10% ethanol/90% methanol blend in 2006 and will run 100% ethanol in 2007.
848418
Yes, they are. Dallara has been the chassis of choice in Formula Three for several years. This season Mercedes seemed to be the most popular engine although there were several Mugen Honda engines in the British F3 series.
160841
though the carrera gt holds the record at neuremburg, where it was actually tested during development, it wont win against a mclaren f1 on a straight drag strip, it can accelerate faster though but it's top speed cant match that of the mclaren, the carrera gt may get a head start but after a few seconds the mclaren is sure to overtake the carrera gt
477610
in cars in australia they have been a law for over 20 years they help save lives & windscreens dont get broken by people going through them
142247
I've said it before and I'll say it again: The McLaren F1 has proven to be the most exotic, reliable, fast, exhilarating supercar in the world. Of course, there is the Veyron, the Koenigsegg, Spyker and all of those things, but none has the mystique of the McLaren F1. The facts back me up as well: it has maintained the status of being the fastest production (not modified at all) roadgoing sportscar in the world for 13 yars now (371 kmh). Remember, unmodified. Because some people could say that, well, the Veyron or the Koenigsegg is faster, but they've all had minor modifications made prior to testing. In my opinion and in lots of car journalists' opinions the "marriage" between The BMW v12 engine and the overall design and engineering work of McLaren's Gordon Murray is the incarnation of perfection in the automotive world.
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No, as long as you have people driving at 200+ miles per hour in a 3500 pound (1500 for IRL) machine with the aerodynamics that they run, then no.  No matter what you do, someone can always get killed.  \n\nThey have made things a lot safer (i.e. HANS device and safer barriers) but accidents and crazy stuff happens all the time.