Ian-S wrote:Those are just from rubber, oil, dirt etc. in the first 11 laps, if he'd been hit on the head by anything remotely resembling a wheel then there would have been more than one funeral. It amazes me people buy into this bullshit, especially from the guy who labelled the Dallara The Crap Wagon, I mean I like the guy cos he often tells it as it is, but more often than not he talks out his arse. You only have to cast your mind back a few years to see what happens when you get hit on the head by a wheel.
"Tire mark right over the windshield from Vegas" Paul Tracy
that looks like a little more than just bits of oil rubber and dirt. thats a full tire mark lol
Im trying to work out the relevance of a tyre mark on a wind screen and how it confirms a hit from a tyre on Tracy's helmet..
To me that more says 'Fark, lucky it did not hit him on the head.' It shows that even a glancing blow is a hell of a hit, and one that leaves a lot more of a scar on the car than was on the helmet, and a direct hit would have led to a double fatality, even to one with a skull like Tracy.
I am not convinced.
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It all depends on the angle of the car as it went over Tracy and the which part of the surface of the tyre hit the car plus helmet. If it was a tyre mark on Tracy's helmet then it is nothing more than a very minor glance from an outer edge of the tyre. Whereas the marks on the windshield look like it's been mounted and ridden by another car.
Assuming Tracy's helmet was hit doesn't automatically mean it would have lead to another fatality. Again it is dependant on circumstance. Martin Brundle and Tom Coronel are living examples that prove you can survive being hit hard on the head by a wheel and tyre.
lets not forget salazar when zampedri flew over his head the last lap of of the 96 indy 500 too. im not trying to argue or prove a point i just posted the helmet pic and what i thought of it. wasnt trying to state a fact or say tracy has superhuman powers and can take a 225mph hit to the head from a wheel
It was whoever was in the white car that climbed over PT who likely put the mark on the car (Pippa Mann?).
Put me in with Everso, tyre marks on a car doesn't mean he got hit on the head by the wheel in the way that it's being implied, the difference in the size of the tyre marks on the car and helmet go as far to disprove he was hit on the head by a wheel more than anything else.
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must admit I did wonder how long they'd survive after Paul Newman died.
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So Wheldon's death was caused by his head hitting one of the posts that held the catchfencing. Apparently the posts were on the inside, and the catchfencing behind on the crowds side. That seems a strange design, although according to the report it said that had the catchfencing been trackside it wouldn't have made any difference.
Were there any other comments of note made in the report?
aside from saying the number of cars in the race would have made no difference, not much.
He had two set's of BFT to the head, the second one killed him.
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PTRACER wrote: ↑2 years ago
It's been 10 years already....Most of us here were watching it unfold live. Still not forgotten and still totally fresh in my memory.
