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Originally Posted by MarkC1984
No, TV generally never show the footage, or if they have shown it once will not show it again. When Eduardo had his leg broken against Birmingham, they showed no replays of it on Match of the Day, or when discussing it after.
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Mail have a video on their site. Had a look, Bianchi was damn lucky not to have his head taken off the speed he went into that JCB.
From what has been said, it seems that Massa and a few other drivers wanted the race postponed because of the typhoon on the way but Mercedes and Red Bull vetoed that. If true, then I imagine they must be feeling awful now.
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It's not for MAMG or RBR to veto a decision to abandon the race - that simply hasn't happened. They might have been happy to continue, they might have even voiced that, but that's not the same thing.
And Massa's protests must be taken in the context of the fact that he was until Sunday the most recent high profile serious casualty, imo. Nobody else seems to have had a problem with carrying on.
What did happen was before the race the FIA wanted to move the race to an earlier time but the race organisers (Honda) refused on three occasions. But the race would have been wet whenever it was run, and the severity of the crash was a result of many other factors combined, including the bad light according to Adrian Sutil. The real question is whether or not a safety car should have been deployed to assist with the recovery of Sutil's Sauber. But there was a spin under an earlier safety car so it's hard to argue that this crash was completely preventable.
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Going forward I think the technology exists to implement pit lane speed limiting near to an incident, meaning we wouldn't need safety cars and drivers wouldn't lose or gain advantages as they do currently when they are deployed. I don't follow Endurance racing but apparently they have slow zones when they have marshalls on track.