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[Hanwombat]

I was at work today, but was flicking on my phone, when I read that Heikki had crashed and was taken by stretcher, I was tre worried, but am glad he seems to be okay.

Hurray for Lewis and his Third Place

Kudos to the Ferrari Team



YES YOU STUPID FERRARI FANS, I SHOW RESPECT FOR YOUR REDS AND YET YOU MAKE PATHETIC TOPICS DISSING MCLAREN. Juveniles.

[bud]

Yes hopefully he is fit enough to race in Turkey,

when i saw the impact i did fear the worst, Kudo's to the modern day F1 car

[racechick]

Yes hopefully he is fit enough to race in Turkey,

when i saw the impact i did fear the worst, Kudo's to the modern day F1 car

Yes when i saw him go right in that wall i thought of the Senna and the Schumacher crash. Sounds like he'll be ok for Turkey.

[Hanwombat]

Yeah luckily, this reminds me of when Robert came off last year, my heart was in my throat

[Kimi_Hamilton]

Me and my family all sat in silence as we watched on, I'll admit I even had a tear in my eye, the fact they were hardly showing the incident and not really talking about it made it feel worse, when we did get a shot it was from a really high helicopter view, and then we saw a blue sheet covering the view, that moment I think I choked. I feared the worse. Time dragged on until we finally saw Heikki give the thumbs up.

I couldn't really concentrate on the race much after, as I was still worried.

[supeindesu]

It could be a bad day, but, thanks everybody is ok.

[al4x]

best news of the gp he was alright, when they stretchered him of i thought he had a broken leg, and the whole in the chassis worried me

[Denthúl]

best news of the gp he was alright, when they stretchered him of i thought he had a broken leg, and the whole in the chassis worried me

I agree. It would've been terrible if he'd been injured.

[Rivelution]

Yeah when they showed the hole in the car I thought he broke his legs. But then they showed him in the stretcher waving to the crowd, but it looked like his left leg was broken. In the news they're saying all he suffered was a concussion. Hope he can race in Turkey.

[7UpJordan]

I'm glad Heikki is ok, looking at the onboard footage afterwards the cause of the crash looks VERY similar to what happened to Hamilton last year at the Nurburgring.

[McLaren Fan]

When I first saw the incident, it reminded me a lot of Senna's fatal accident, when the car just seemed not take the corner, but when I saw the replay it reminded me of Hamilton's crash last season. I feared it was serious when they didn't shown much of the aftermath, something which usually suggests something especially serious happened, but thankfully we soon saw him being stretchered away giving the thumbs up. It shows you how much safety has progressed in the last ten years, given that Schumacher broke his legs in a similar accident at Silverstone in 1999.

[McLaren Fan]

An update from Ron Dennis on autosport.com:

Kovalainen expected to race in Turkey

By Jonathan Noble and Pablo Elizalde Sunday, April 27th 2008, 16:50 GMT

Heikki Kovalainen's crash after his crash in SpainMcLaren team boss Ron Dennis is confident Heikki Kovalainen will be able to race in the Turkish Grand Prix following his massive crash in Spain on Sunday.

Kovalainen was knocked unconscious after he crashed at an estimated 220km/h on lap 22 of the Barcelona race when he suffered a problem with his left front tyre.

The 100-millisecond accident produced a force of 26G.

The Finn, who waved to the crowd after being extracted from his car, was airlifted to the Hospital General de Catalunya, where checks showed he had no injuries.

"His scans are completely clear. There are no physical damage to him at all and no trauma damage to his brain, he's completely clear," Dennis told reporters after the race.

"(He is) a little concussed. But not as a result of anything other than the trauma of the accident - there's no damage or bruising or bleeding. So we're quite optimistic about the next race.

"I'm not a doctor so I must qualify what I say - I spoke to our doctor at the hospital and we're quite optimistic that at this very early stage he'll be able to race because there is no damage, bruising or bleeding."

Kovalainen will stay under observation tonight and is expected to leave the hospital tomorrow.

Dennis said the team were almost completely sure the accident was triggered by a wheel failure.

"As far as we can tell, because we've now got the parts – a wheel failed," he said. "A very unusual occurrence," he added.

"It had only had 14km on it, so it was a brand new wheel so we have to analyse the components to find out. But at the moment, it's 99.9 per cent certain the wheel failed.

"It's a new wheel and under circumstances like this it will normally be something to do with our partners who make the wheel – but it would be completely inappropriate for me to make any comment until we've analysed the pieces. Obviously, when we know we'll share it with you."

Dennis admitted the team did not consider stopping Kovalainen's teammate Lewis Hamilton because they had already identified the problem.

"We had identified while Lewis was behind the safety car that it was a rapid loss of air pressure. You could see from the imaging that there was no wobble on the wheel so it wasn't a loose wheel and the wheel was still tight afterwards. We felt that it was completely safe to continue."

[Jensonb]

YES YOU STUPID FERRARI FANS, I SHOW RESPECT FOR YOUR REDS AND YET YOU MAKE PATHETIC TOPICS DISSING MCLAREN. Juveniles.

And writing that in your post is not juvenile?

Way to embarrass yourself after what was up to then a fine post.

[darwin dali]

YES YOU STUPID FERRARI FANS, I SHOW RESPECT FOR YOUR REDS AND YET YOU MAKE PATHETIC TOPICS DISSING MCLAREN. Juveniles.

And writing that in your post is not juvenile?

Way to embarrass yourself after what was up to then a fine post.

Yeah. At first, it didn't register with me that much because I didn't feel addressed personally since I'm not stupid and I'm not a Ferrari fan. But now that you mention it, it IS rather childish to post something like this.

[texasmr2]

YES YOU STUPID FERRARI FANS, I SHOW RESPECT FOR YOUR REDS AND YET YOU MAKE PATHETIC TOPICS DISSING MCLAREN. Juveniles.

And writing that in your post is not juvenile?

Way to embarrass yourself after what was up to then a fine post.

Yeah. At first, it didn't register with me that much because I didn't feel addressed personally since I'm not stupid and I'm not a Ferrari fan. But now that you mention it, it IS rather childish to post something like this.

Childish is a very complimentary assertation to what I was thinking !
Sound's like a cat fight to me as we have AKR Ferrari lamb and Hanwombat McLaren lamb yah ?