Explosion and fire in Williams garage

Explosion and fire in Williams garage#303000

By FerrariFan63 - 13 May 12, 16:29

- 13 May 12, 16:29#303000

Sounds fairly major, with some injuries.

http://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/f1-pe ... =2&s=1&i=1

Re: Explosion and fire in Williams garage#303007

By f1boy - 13 May 12, 16:39

- 13 May 12, 16:39#303007

Just seen this on Sky news. Lot's of grey smoke.
Crazy party by the look of it. 8-)

(hope no ones badly injured though)

Re: Explosion and fire in Williams garage#303010

By LewEngBridewell - 13 May 12, 16:43

- 13 May 12, 16:43#303010

Saw it live on the BBC Red Button TV Forum. Shocking. Never seen anything like that.

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Re: Explosion and fire in Williams garage#303011

By andrew - 13 May 12, 16:45

- 13 May 12, 16:45#303011

Saw it live on the BBC Red Button TV Forum. Shocking. Never seen anything like that.

How'd you get the red button forum? I didn't. It was football or some rubbish like that in these parts. :irked:

Re: Explosion and fire in Williams garage#303012

By LewEngBridewell - 13 May 12, 16:46

- 13 May 12, 16:46#303012

Saw it live on the BBC Red Button TV Forum. Shocking. Never seen anything like that.

How'd you get the red button forum? I didn't. It was football or some rubbish like that in these parts.

I pressed the red button! There it was. Of course, you'd have to wait till the main program finished.

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Re: Explosion and fire in Williams garage#303014

By andrew - 13 May 12, 16:48

- 13 May 12, 16:48#303014

Saw it live on the BBC Red Button TV Forum. Shocking. Never seen anything like that.

How'd you get the red button forum? I didn't. It was football or some rubbish like that in these parts.

I pressed the red button! There it was. Of course, you'd have to wait till the main program finished.

I did that. Tried a few times. :irked:

Re: Explosion and fire in Williams garage#303017

By LewEngBridewell - 13 May 12, 16:51

- 13 May 12, 16:51#303017

Saw it live on the BBC Red Button TV Forum. Shocking. Never seen anything like that.

How'd you get the red button forum? I didn't. It was football or some rubbish like that in these parts.

I pressed the red button! There it was. Of course, you'd have to wait till the main program finished.

I did that. Tried a few times.

That's strange. It worked fine for me.

By the end, it was just Jake, EJ, DC and Gary trying to present in a paddock full of smoke.

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Re: Explosion and fire in Williams garage#303018

By scotty - 13 May 12, 16:52

- 13 May 12, 16:52#303018

Some footage:

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Re: Explosion and fire in Williams garage#303037

By What's Burning? - 13 May 12, 17:19

- 13 May 12, 17:19#303037

It's likely that whatever exploded on Senna's car was due to the incident with Schumacher.

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Re: Explosion and fire in Williams garage#303047

By racechick - 13 May 12, 17:36

- 13 May 12, 17:36#303047

Wow! That looked like quite a fire. Hope everyone's ok.

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Re: Explosion and fire in Williams garage#303058

By hypertek - 13 May 12, 18:13

- 13 May 12, 18:13#303058

Don't think I ever have partied as hard as Williams Grand Prix after a victory. :cloud9:

I'm kidding. Hope those affected by it will be alright. Pretty crummy thing to happen.

I wonder how much money will be lost in the repairs/replacement of parts. For a private team I would think that would be devastating.

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Re: Explosion and fire in Williams garage#303059

By Hammer278 - 13 May 12, 18:16

- 13 May 12, 18:16#303059

It's likely that whatever exploded on Senna's car was due to the incident with Schumacher.

So....the headlines for Williams' fire tomorrow should be? "Schumacher's wrath"? :hehe:

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Re: Explosion and fire in Williams garage#303060

By myownalias - 13 May 12, 18:17

- 13 May 12, 18:17#303060

It's likely that whatever exploded on Senna's car was due to the incident with Schumacher.

Looking at the photo of the aftermath of the fire (posted in the Spanish GP thread), it looked like Senna's car was untouched, whether or not the KERS unit had already been removed is unknown!

It's just sad to see this happened as the team celebrated their first win in eight years!

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Re: Explosion and fire in Williams garage#303062

By andrew - 13 May 12, 18:20

- 13 May 12, 18:20#303062

Looks like a fault with the KERS unit. Apparently Senna's car had just been returned to Williams when the explosion happened. The car would have been sitting trackside with no cooling so probably something overheating and the movement of the car was enough to set off the KERS unit going pop.

Re: Explosion and fire in Williams garage#303066

By hypertek - 13 May 12, 18:32

- 13 May 12, 18:32#303066

remember we seen nick heidfeld's R31 have an explosion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FBurdZFKtg

Ironically Senna was also on that team and became the driver for that car :irked:

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