rec.autos.simulators

This may be a little off-topic, but I happened to catch an MPEG of Joe
Verstappen in the pits, gas gets sprayed over the entire car, 2 seconds
later it's completely engulfed in flames...Very scary.

Did he survive ?  Have serious burns or what ?

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August Branchesi
Systems Programmer / Apex Mrsketing Group
http://www.racesimcentral.net/~muja

In '96 he raced for Arrows. In '97 he is racing for Tyrrell

It was the German grand prix at hochenheim. That was only a couple of
litres of fuel imagine what a whole tank would do.....
Jos was fine as one of the mechanics sprayed a fire extingwisher right
onto him. However the refueller was badly burned and about 6 of the
benetton crew were taken to hochenheim hospital. As someone else
mentioned jos was grand {apart from inhaling loads of "dust" of the
extingwisher} but had a bad cough for a while. :))

Gauntlet

"It was something i didn't expect to go like ten seconds away from
him, in Brazil at his home Grand Prix, where he tried everything."

Anthony

: More off topic and a bit sarcastic but here goes, Do you really think
: "racing" for Tyrrell is the appropriate expression, I thought he was
: the Drivers' Council "Crash Test Dummy" to test the new safety
: features through-out the year !! I'll grant he can be fast but....as
: the old addage goes "To finish first you must first finish" (No pun
: intended). I'll go back to lurking in rec.autos.sport.f1 now.....

: Anthony

Oh great, I guess we can expect an invasion of the Dutchies now.

Trev

Hi Willam,

:-)

Cheers,

Remco

: >
: > This may be a little off-topic, but I happened to catch an MPEG of Joe
: > Verstappen in the pits, gas gets sprayed over the entire car, 2 seconds
: > later it's completely engulfed in flames...Very scary.
: >
: > Did he survive ?  Have serious burns or what ?
: >
: > ------
: > August Branchesi
: > Systems Programmer / Apex Mrsketing Group
: > http://members.visi.net/~muja

: I watched that race you are talking about and he wasnt hurt at all, one
: mech had slight burns though.

Only because he had his visor open while sat in the pits! This
is a big No No, he should know better.

Neil

---Jim Sokoloff

: >>
: >> This may be a little off-topic, but I happened to catch an MPEG of Joe
: >> Verstappen in the pits, gas gets sprayed over the entire car, 2 seconds
: >> later it's completely engulfed in flames...Very scary.
: >>
: >> Did he survive ?  Have serious burns or what ?
: He survived,Only minor burns and a pit crew member got minor burns
: too. The reason why the fuel spilt was because that team(i forgot)had
: taken a filter or somtehing out to speed up the flow rate. But the
: valve thingy couldnt handle it and it came away from the car.
: Another thing...only two litres was spilt:)

I saw this in TV news before. From my observation, it is the valve get
stuck. The fuel comes out even when the hose is disconnected from the car.
At that moment, no one knows the happening of fuel spilt except the
refuelling man himself. After about 1.5 second, the gas caught fire and
the driver is still in the car. Luckily, the flame was put out after just
a few seconds. It is just a minor accident but it makes the FIA caution
about the refuelling. This case was also mentioned in the GP2 manual.

Bernard Shum

If I remember correctly, Beneton were fined for tampering with the
refuelling mechanism. Apparently they removed something from the
fuelling equipment to try and make the refuelling quicker, possibly
causing the spill.
I taped the race and watched it the next day and when I saw the fire, I
was suprised that it wasn't mentioned on the news, but the day after
that, it was shown. Some exec must have watched the tape too.!!

regards
Scott