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Originally Posted by MKSixer
Worst accident I've seen in years. I was at Indy in 2017 and about 150 meters away when Bordais crashed into the wall at turn 3 breaking both of his legs. I could feel the heat flash when it occurred and the crash today was 10 times worse.
It was the fuel collector box that flared which is about 3 gallons of fuel. Had it been the entire cell he would have died.
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"Negative" my friend .
1- First pic shows the remains of the fuel tank (bag-cell) "See my red circle"
The fuel tank is completely gone and melted, all the fuel is burned in the flames or it was the cause of the huge explosion ..
That's why the fire extinguishers "initially" made the fire and flames even "WORSE"
By the compressed air in the fire extinguishers , they sprayed more air into the fire !
Why was that ?
*They sprayed too far away from the flames* because they were afraid of the fire .
This was a "HUGE MISTAKE" ! They could have "KILLED" Romain !
But understandable at that moment in front of hell's fire .
2- The telemetry showed the impact was 50+ G !
Romain's speed was 221 km/h during the puncturing of the barrier.
The HALO and cockpit (monocoque survival cell) "SEEM" to be intact .
But both are cracked ..