Comments on: Video: Fisichella blames Bourdais for crash with Nakajima in Turkish GP

By: Keith Collantine

Keith Collantine — Wed, 21 May 2008 11:10:32 +0000

Fixed, thanks.

By: Alianora La Canta

Alianora La Canta — Wed, 21 May 2008 11:02:10 +0000

The video’s not there any more – I guess Bernie’s up to the usual copyright-chasing…

By: the limit

the limit — Wed, 14 May 2008 02:50:01 +0000

I think its just a case of Fisichella trying to deflect blame for the accident onto Bourdais, in a manner that is simular to Coulthard’s remarks about Felipe Massa in Australia.
From what I have seen of the video, Bourdais makes a clean move infront of Fisichella. This move may have startled Fisichella, as it was swift, but once Giancarlo had locked his front tyres, he was already into Nakajima.
It was his mistake, Fisichella’s, and no one elses.
It is amusing, that some of F1’s most seasoned drivers, are the ones making the biggest mistakes. As mentioned earlier, Coulthard has already been involved in two crashes and an altercation in Barcelona.
I put it down to pure frustration, and in knowing that their time in the sport is now limited.

By: chunter

chunter — Tue, 13 May 2008 23:19:26 +0000

Fisi doesn’t have a lot of experience starting in DFL, but if he’s going to race with Force India he better quit making excuses and start getting used to it.

By: Steven Roy

Steven Roy — Tue, 13 May 2008 17:19:26 +0000

Fisi’s brakes were still locked as he passed the apex. It didn’t matter what anyone else did he was going to crash. Besides it’s the first corner of a race people are going to move around all over the place looking for gaps.

If you start last you either have to make a great start and make up a lot of positions or be conservative into the first corner and hope that you make your way through any carnage. You cannot brake late and hope no-one moves and a gap appears. It was stupid.

By: Oliver

Oliver — Tue, 13 May 2008 16:32:00 +0000

Its a bit of Fisi’s fault, but you can see Sebastien move first to the right then to the left. Its possible Fisi was about to hit the brake pedals when Seb made his move and thus missed his brake point.

By: Scott Joslin

Scott Joslin — Tue, 13 May 2008 14:22:30 +0000

Fisi’s fault I am afraid, I would accept that kind of error from a rookie but not from someone with over 10yrs experience in F1. Fisi knew he was last on the grid and should have took care knowing the chance of a crash at turn 1 was high, also, he had crashed twice at turn 1 in Turkey before, surely caution was needed!

By: milos

milos — Tue, 13 May 2008 14:14:24 +0000

now we have the great highligts on F1 official site. The Fisichella Nakajima crash comes with a dramatic music attached to it

Fisi’s fault I would say without too much doubt (the crash, not the video)

By: Keith Collantine

Keith Collantine — Tue, 13 May 2008 13:50:29 +0000

Pre-1981 material is generally not owned by Formula One Management.

By: TommyB

TommyB — Tue, 13 May 2008 13:49:41 +0000

It seems only the new F1 videos get taken down. Is this because Bernie doesnt own the rights to the older ones?

By: Keith Collantine

Keith Collantine — Tue, 13 May 2008 13:36:27 +0000

Alianora - perhaps, but in the top 100 videos article I did in 2006, eight of the top ten were all still available. And a quick search revealed many examples of the missing two: Top 100 F1 videos part X - 10-1.

By: Alianora La Canta

Alianora La Canta — Tue, 13 May 2008 12:39:34 +0000

Do you suppose Bernie’s decided that this site is a good way of finding dodgy content?

By: Keith Collantine

Keith Collantine — Tue, 13 May 2008 11:48:38 +0000

Fixed, thanks!

By: Clive

Clive — Tue, 13 May 2008 11:40:59 +0000

Huh, didn’t take Bernie long to catch up with that one…