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Brazilian Formula Truck accident (24 posts)

Topic tags: Diumar Bueno, Formula Truck

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MuzzleFlash said 7 months, 1 week ago:

Unless I’ve done something silly, a Formula 1 car would have to be traveling at 380mph to have the same amount of energy as that truck. And 1000mph (Mach 1.3) to have the same amount of momentum.

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Fer no.65 said 7 months, 1 week ago:

Woooow ! What the heck, that’s massive ! :O He went throught like there was nothing there !

I never liked truck racing, I think it’s just ridiculous. I remember not long ago, when a couple of trucks crashed on the first corner at Interlagos, they almost reached the people standing in the grandstands.

It’s ridiculosuly disproportionate, and it really must be impossible to make a track safe to race with these trucks. I’m glad the driver is alive, because watching that video, it’s hard to believe.

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Carlitox said 7 months, 1 week ago:

Wow, never really tried to do the math, but those are big numbers! I wonder if any of the engineers working there have thought about these figures. If I know how to calculate them, surely they should be well-aware, although it seems they’re not.

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Polishboy808 said 7 months, 1 week ago:

Dissapointing to see this happen again. Some time ago at this same exact track, same thing happened but at a lower speed. The guy was able to steer the truck through the grass and hit the barrier at a different angle, but he still went over the barrier and down that fall. Search Luiz Lopez truck crash I think, and that’s the crash.

It’s sad that many of the biggest (and sometimes fatal) crashes happen in Brazil. The amount of tracks they have there is crazy, but most of them aren’t suitable for any kind of professional racing. However even at a track thats generally regarded as being world class, like interlagos, fatal accidents happen in Brazil’s many racing series. I think they seriously need to have a look at the safety of all the cars and tracks, because crashes like this are ridiculous.

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Stretch said 7 months, 1 week ago:

Average force over the duration of impact with the tyre wall is (mass) x (change in velocity) / (duration of impact). Hard to tell but say he lost at max 50% of his speed when he hit the wall and he hit the wall for 0.5 sec, gives 286,000 Newtons of force acting on the truck by the wall, which is like 5 trucks standing nose to tail in an upright column (5.3g). All this and he is still moving at 95km/h.

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Fer no.65 said 7 months, 1 week ago:

Aren’t these trucks limited to 160 kph?

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Noelinho said 7 months, 1 week ago:

Adding more and more rows of tyre barriers for trucks would be the absolute worst thing you could do. One of two things would happen. Either the truck would lift off into outer space, or the whole thing would flatten itself from behind and there would be nothing left. Either way, the driver wouldn’t stand a chance.

Absolutely amazing that the driver there escaped alive. Truck racing is one step too extreme for me, I think!

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vinicius.jlantunes said 7 months, 1 week ago:

I went to the series website to try and get some information on the rules and check if there is a speed limit or something. I couldn’t find any documentation.
I think someone mentioned in this forum before (I think it was @guilherme) how messy the brazilian motor racing entity (CBA) is. I admit I don’t follow their work very closely but I can only agree with that assessment. As people mentioned here, safety standards are not taken very seriously in any of the series I know of, but more concerning is that it doesn’t seem to be getting more attention – this crash is an example, nowhere you see anyone concerned with it, only reports that “wow that was a big crash but the driver is relatively fine so let’s simply move on”.

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Fer no.65 said 7 months, 1 week ago:

It’s something common in South America. The cars are great, but there’s not that much money. Afterall, even F1 circuits are struggling, and these tracks are visited by cars like the rampant V8s from Stock Car or Super TC2000… not to mention Formula Truck. It’s hard to keep it safe…

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