great news!
Posted on 10/02/2014 6:47:36 PM PDT by Chode
great news!
Those were monsters to ride.
this is too eerily similar to María de Villota.
Radio Monte Carlo reporting Bianchi needs another operation to stop bleeding. He has been intubated & placed on ventilation #F1 (five hours ago)
https://twitter.com/F1grid/status/518827755937734656
http://www.tuxboard.com/crash-jules-bianchi-gp-japon-2014/ video that doesn't show crash but Bianchi's car afterwards)
Last time I saw the back of a car sheered off like this was Dan Wheldon
Prayers up for his recovery. Bad to race with a major typhoon moving in.
the picture of him in the car does not look good at ell...
Is there any video of the actual crash? I haven’t seen it. I’m interested in the cause, not the impact...hit by another car?...mechanical failure?...driver error?
no video of crash as of yet (though i’m sure there’s footage from his car the FIA will never release)- just seemed to aquaplane on a fast corner as Sutil did before him....
Thanks for the updates. Wish him all the best.
Good video update from Skysports:
1) he did not undergo a second surgery
2) he is on a respirator and cannot breathe on his own
3) finger pointing already going on as to why the race was run when the helicopter was unable to fly
damn... lawyers already circling
Accidents today are not a simple event, they have become a complicated series of failures occurring in a fast paced environment. This makes it very difficult to prevent. The level of permutations becomes the issue in achieving greater safety.
RE: #2.
Damn. Just, damn.
I’ve been praying for him since it happened; but that does not sound good.
Yes they were.
Wow, exciting weekend.
latest update with video: Critical but stable
“I can clear up a couple of pieces of misinformation which have been picked up by the French media and a couple of outlets in the UK,” Craig Slater reported at 6am UK Time on Monday morning.
“I can confirm that Jules is not, unfortunately, breathing unaided. My understanding is that he is still relying on a respirator at this point to be able to breathe.
Sauber’s Adrian Sutil crashed at the same corner as Jules Bianchi and feels the race could have been stopped sooner.
“I can also confirm that he has not undergone a second surgical procedure. My understanding is that he went through one medical procedure at about 11pm Japanese time and he has been intensive care since then.”
It has also emerged that Professor Gerard Saillant, who oversaw the initial treatment of Michael Schumacher when the German was in a coma after suffering serious head injuries while skiing in the French Alps, would arrive at the hospital in Japan on Tuesday.
yes, it was... i hope Bianchi recovers
here it is; video of accident taken from grandstands...three more inches to the left and Bianchi would’ve been decapitated:
http://jalopnik.com/first-video-of-jules-bianchi-crash-shows-how-violent-th-1642872386
just damn... one lucky boy
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