mrfizzy

Just had a look, it's the same here in Australia as well.

GTA V, which ended up being just as good as I thought it was going to be (in my opinion).

In regards to this stuff I have never been able to tell the difference between 30 and 60 unless the frame-rate is switching between the two. At the same time I have never understood Blurays because I don't think they look any better than DVDs. I wish I could tell the difference but I just can't.

Only thing I can think of is that I wear glasses and one of my eyes is significantly weaker than the other. Not sure if that has something to do with it.

Also been following since Arrow Pointing Down. I remember one of the first podcasts involved Ryan talking about how comfortable Jeff's couch was because the whole thing was being recorded in Jeff's living room where Ryan had passed out the night before. Back then every day was an Unprofessional Friday.

It did really really badly, thus the rebranding of it as Live, Die, Repeat for the DVD. In my opinion they should have stuck with the name All You Need Is Kill, maybe the most badass name ever as opposed to the most generic sci-fi movie title I have heard in a long while.

Uh no, Sliding under a tractor is exactly the problem here. An F1 car is low, a recovery vehicle is high. Thus an F1 car hitting a recovery vehicle and going under it means that the F1 car's major weak point when it comes to safety, the driver's exposed head, is more likely to be damaged. This is why we now have a driver in hospital, possibly with a broken neck.

In relation to what you are saying, yes a car hitting either another driver who is out of their car or a steward is an issue and it has happened before but unless you are going to stop the entire race in order to allow a driver to get out of their car and behind the barricades I don't really see any option other than what currently happens.

At the end of the day you have very fast and very light cars going around within close proximity to other cars and barriers. There is naturally an inherent risk involved with that. The drivers accept that risk every time they get in their car. The question is, which risks are to be considered as an unfortunate but necessary part of the sport and which are significant enough to alter the sport in order to reduce the risk.

In their defence I don't really know what the answer is. I don't want to watch races where the safety car is brought out every time a car runs into a tyre barrier. On the other hand, I don't want to see drivers who are only less than 6 months older than me in hospital fighting for their lives. What appears to me to be the most common-sense think to do is to have some sort of shield that hangs down over the sides of the recovery vehicles so that if a car does come along and crash it wont slide in underneath the tractor. How easy it to do that I am not certain.

The really dumb thing is that almost exactly the same thing happened to Martin Brundle at Suzuka in 1994. http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/martin-brundle--my-own-goal-1570271.html

For those who don't want to read it, in 1994 at Suzuka, it was wet, one driver lost it and went off, they brought out the tractor to remove the car, Martin Brundle lost it in the same place second later and went flying straight at the tractor, happened to spin the car enough that he just scraped past the tractor rather than hitting it.

Sound familiar?

Apparently he is out of surgery and in intensive care now.

Was the safety car already out when this happened? Because I would have thought you wouldn't be allowed to bring the tractor out from behind the barricade before a safety car was out for this exact reason. But now I'm trying to remember what usually happens and can't really remember.