I agree, the Helmets are probably more than strong enough to withstand the impact of the wheel. Michael Schumacher's Helmet survived intact after being ran over by a Tank.
Piercing =/= compression. A bulletproof vest will stop a blunt bullet, but won't stop a stab wound. Senna's accident was a completely frea occurence, though, and probably might never be replicated in F1.
I've seen helmets, even in the 90's, hit with some amazing things... I remember one American race where the top of the driver's helmet had to put up with about 500 kilos of race car sliding over the top of it and sitting there... for the ten to fifteen minutes it took to hoist the thing off of him. Driver was okay, but understandably pissed.
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Awesome, awesome race. Drama, tension, excitement... wonderful!
I imagine that BMW will be feeling pretty silly arguing the whole diffuser case when a single-diffuser car came in in pole in the dry and won the thing in the wet, at a pace that was convincingly better than the double-diffuser car.
Tough luck for them, all race.
I was sad to see Sutil go out... what a wonderful race for the man! To be caught out by the conditions at the last second!
Wonderful races, too, for Glock and Kovalainen. It's not often you see Hekki outperforming Lewis... and in the rain. His team-mate had a weird race... he was definitely showing his skills in the rain... driving much, much faster than most... but for once, he wasn't in total control of that car... overdriving it (which he admits to...) at least he still got 6th (though, to be fair, almost all the front runners had offs). I'm impressed by Hekki's poise and consistency... and Massa's. From wet-weather zero to wet-weather hero... too bad his car gave up on him. Kimi was visibly struggling with his car... Apparently, the misfire as noted by some commentators was being caused by the spray kicked up by other cars... I don't think it's electrical... maybe the Ferrari intake is too susceptible to water ingestion? The Scuderia Torro Rosso cars seemed to have no problems at all!
Glock and Sutil were the suprises of the day... Sutil overtaking Hamilton was hilarious! Glock's drive
from the pits up into the points was also noteworthy.
As compared to Jarno Trulli's drive. The words "Trulli-train"{ were going through my head over and over again as I watched the race... until Kubica put his car out of its misery.
Who said this race was boring? The dicing between Button, Webber and Vettel was fantastic stuff. And they seemed to think so, too... Jenson Button didn't look the least bit miffed at being third on the podium. And, I have to confess... seeing Vettel's germanic mug on the top step gave me deja vu... he looks vaguely like a young Herr Schumacher. I really like this guy.
With the Red Bull competitive, even without the diffuser (yet), and Scuderia Torro Rosso being one of the quickest (in terms of straightline speed) cars on the track (oh, Buemi's 8th was also a nice result), could we be seeing a whole lot of Bull in the points from this point forward?
