Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Timo Glock-Crash Analysis

Panasonic Toyota F-1 Team's rookie driver Timo Glock had an huge crash on Sundays German GP at Hockenhiem,the german was pushing hard at the hairpin corner...the car was reportedly at 130mph when timo crashed at the wall seperating the pitlane and the track.Timo was in concious state and was still trying to bring the car to halt and bring it out of the track.Timo was removed out of the car by the Marshal's and he was able to walk but only with the support of marshalls...after walking for a few meters a preferes to stop and took support of an pole and stood there...till the marshals provided him with a chair and he sat down...pretty shaken by the crash....Formula 1 federation or FIA hasn't provided any information about the injuries suffred by the german,but on close examination of the video it can be seen that he was constantly trying to support his lower back with his hand...which gives us an hint of lower back injuries...or a strain.

Detailled analysis-
After comming out of the final hairpin curve timo glock was pushing hard and ran a bit wide going out of the track for a few brief secondsthe reason for this could be the suspension faliur too which took as soon as he landed on the kerb which is just after the sood kurve.The video shows that as Glock landed on the kerb the right rear suspension's tie rod broke and which lead to the whole suspension system to fail and which also helped the fatal crash.



3 comments:

  1. good analysis....

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  2. the analysis is wrong the left rear wheel suspension broke...not the right rear......

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