Re: Goodwood 74 MM
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2016 3:19 pm
I suspect the tunnel will be elongated away from the track, and when you look at it, the 'junction' between the access road and the live circuit at that point puts the tyre wall at right angles to the track on a straight where they will be accelerating hard - to me, a set of tyre fronted gates or similar which continue the tyre wall across the access road whilst the racing is live would help contain any incidents within the circuit. The head on nature of the impact definitely contributed to the final 'flip'.
Accidents within circuits are difficult, and can be looked at in one way, but when racing cars, or bits of them, enter the public areas, there is a real chance of them being game changers, and a whole different set of constraints come into play.
I was nearly hit by the screen of Juan Barazzi's 250LM at St Mary's and was close to the point of Stretton's shunt in the Bizzarini, both huge accidents, but within the scope of 'racing accidents', but that wheel and the tunnel will have huge implications.
The answer is to keep the 2 apart - either by barriers, removing people from areas, or circuit design. Or stopping.
Once it's happened once, it's foreseeable, so must be dealt with.
Of course, Goodwood have been through part of this before when they were in the high court following the death of a Big Healey driver at a track day several years ago, and the design of the barriers was questioned. As GRRC had sought (and followed) the advice of experts, they were held to have done as they should, and not at fault. In this case, they must do the same again in response to these incidents (part of their MSA licence conditions anyway, I'd imagine)
Funnily enough, the H&S officer job at Goodwood came up late last year, and it was only the move that stopped me applying - I hope the new guy is not having too bad a time of it!
Al
Accidents within circuits are difficult, and can be looked at in one way, but when racing cars, or bits of them, enter the public areas, there is a real chance of them being game changers, and a whole different set of constraints come into play.
I was nearly hit by the screen of Juan Barazzi's 250LM at St Mary's and was close to the point of Stretton's shunt in the Bizzarini, both huge accidents, but within the scope of 'racing accidents', but that wheel and the tunnel will have huge implications.
The answer is to keep the 2 apart - either by barriers, removing people from areas, or circuit design. Or stopping.
Once it's happened once, it's foreseeable, so must be dealt with.
Of course, Goodwood have been through part of this before when they were in the high court following the death of a Big Healey driver at a track day several years ago, and the design of the barriers was questioned. As GRRC had sought (and followed) the advice of experts, they were held to have done as they should, and not at fault. In this case, they must do the same again in response to these incidents (part of their MSA licence conditions anyway, I'd imagine)
Funnily enough, the H&S officer job at Goodwood came up late last year, and it was only the move that stopped me applying - I hope the new guy is not having too bad a time of it!
Al