These Stupid Things Need To Be BANNED

[@antoniusbaswara8477]

You know it's serious when Josh mentioned Gelael without being followed-up by "bruh".

[@mr.fister4738]

bruh

[@davidvasquez08]

Bruh

[@dangerdean9066]

My disappointment is immeasurable. And my day is ruined

[@AndrewYac]

@@dangerdean9066 bruh

[@davidmushal7862]

I wish I could double-like this comment. Even showed the clip without the sound effect.

[@tetragon2137]

I've always been a fan of the idea used at some turns at Silverstone: the thin green line. You have the edge of the track, then a metre of grass; anyone who abuses track limits is punished with the loss of traction from driving on the green. But beyond that, *then* you have tarmac run off, so that anyone who completely loses it doesn't just skip off the grass into the barriers.

[@andrewfetter4843]

Or just use weight sensors and motion cameras with an asphalt runoff. Then you utilize slow down penalties, better battles, safer racing imo

[@Jehty_]

How safe is that solution? Even a small grass strip could cause the cars to flip.

[@andrewfetter4843]

@Jehty21 it would just be sensors under the pavement. No different surface would be needed

[@Jehty_]

@@andrewfetter4843 I wasn't talking about your solution. I was asking OP 😉

[@z0rgMeister]

Grass is easy to maintain in the UK. Try maintaining a green grass line around the circuit in Sakhar or any other desert circuit. Try fitting one in in Monaco or any urban circuit.

[@piphilify]

Haven't watched the video, but if I see a video about banning sausage kerbs, I click like.

[@nachtblau79]

I read "banging" and it felt weird for a moment.

[@adenkyramud5005]

​@@nachtblau79 you're not the only one mate😂

[@dylanwagemans7718]

Agreed. They’re way too annoying in F1 22

[@core_russell3869]

​@@nachtblau79not the only 1

[@dylanwagemans7718]

@Rob-zo5ru Haha

[@ash6248]

The 4 horseman aston was a serious eye opener for me. Ive seen formula cars destroyed plenty but watching a GT car be torn apart like that was very scary to watch.

[@sparksk8er]

"Should we wait for one of these cars to clear the fences" Well, Floresch did and they didnt care

[@gregoryfernandez6676]

She didn't even have to clear the fence she was going 120+ and just went through it, luckily into a temporary camera structure or whatever instead of a grandstand filled with people.

[@philgiglio7922]

​@@gregoryfernandez6676...I've been watching open wheel racing since '67: I've seen some brutal accidents; but hers was the most terrifying thing I've EVER seen.

[@ihavewaited90daystochangem51]

​@@philgiglio7922 has to be one of the most brutal non fatal racing crashes of all time

[@OnATripToVegas]

I've always asked myself why after the Peroni crash '19 they held onto these kerbs. The guy literally flew higher than the fences... and we saw how fragile those thing are on Zhous crash in Silverstone.

[@PleiadesRuby]

Peroni's crash should have been the impotus to fix it. The fact that they didn't means they never will. A closer fence and a grandstand on that corner would have been an incredible tragedy.

[@Evarakeus]

It's F1, they can and will happily wait until it kills someone before they fix it just as they've done with every safety advancement of the last 70 years

[@sandalphoncpu]

It’s terrifying when you realize without the halo, some of those crashes would’ve been fatal.

And even with HALO, drivers can have problems with spine

[@slap_k_man1862]

Honestly I think the halo has just made Driver's more reckless it feels like every weekend in f2 we're talking about the halo saving someone or seeing a car on top of each other

[@akuma2534]

I think they would have been nastyer, but I'm not sure they would have been 100% fatal.

[@makb_the_striker]

In the 90s people were riding on top parts of the walls with their helmet tops, with only minor injuries. HALO was really useful only in the Grosjean crash already. So yup it works, and is the boon, because 3 children have a father, but don't overestimate that stuff. Head protection in autosport should be increased.

[@jimrustle270]

@@slap_k_man1862 yeah, we survived without the halo just fine for decades. And suddenly it’s been a lifesaver multiple times? Shenanigans.

[@samjones7834]

BTW, for anyone wondering about the "McDonnell Douglas approach" Josh makes at 6:47, here's some context on what I think he's referring to with that (this is gonna be a very brief simplified version of the crash - for more details I'm gonna link a really good Medium article about it at the bottom of this comment which goes into a lot of detail of the whole story) McDonnell Douglas was an American aircraft manufacturer which produced multiple different aircraft, one of these being the three engine wide-body airliner known as the DC-10. In 1972, issues with the DC-10's cargo doors had been discovered after one of them was blown off of an American Airlines flight leaving Ontario, Canada, and the subsequent investigation into the accident had recommendations for major design changes. However, due to a variety of factors, the actual design changes ended up being fairly minor and on one DC-10 that was later sold to Turkish Airlines, some of these changes were never actually made. In 1974, this very plane would suffer another cargo door failure, and would crash into a forest just outside of Paris, killing all 346 people onboard - at the time the worst aviation disaster in history. The subsequent investigation and digging by journalists would then find out that people at McDonnell Douglas and sub-contracted companies who had worked on the DC-10 had known about these issues long before the 1972 American Airlines incident and had also known that it could lead to a major incident but did nothing about it, with McDonnell Douglas even avoiding major penalties for the 1972 incident via a gentlemen's agreement between one of the Presidents of McDonnell Douglas and the head of the Federal Aviation Authority. After the Turkish Airlines crash however, the jig was up - McDonnell Douglas was forced to make major design changes to the cargo door and had to payout HUGE amounts of cash in a lawsuit that had been brought against them by the victims of the 1974 crash. Yeah, you can see why our mate Josh made that comparison now? Not doing anything about a major issue until it ends up killing someone. Anyway, here's the article. admiralcloudberg.medium.com/a-legal-and-moral-question-the-crash-of-turkish-airlines-flight-981-and-the-dc-10-cargo-door-saga-d22f0b9fa689

[@janeblogs324]

Nice summary thanks. By jig you mean gig. The gig was up

[@lolyungmulaBABY]

@@janeblogs324The “jig is up” is a common idiom. It used to refer to an old dance, but more or less means ‘we’ve been caught and have no defense’.

[@ChadwickHalfWit]

Interesting to how this holds up a year later. Noting the current issues plaguing Boeing.

[@anonluxor470]

I'm surprised none of the drivers didn't threatened to sue the FIA because those things are literally a 1000 lawsuits

[@corpsecoder_nw6746]

when you do that as a driver it's like suing the only company that employs people in your industry. There is only 1 FIA and they govern all worldwide motorsport categories pretty much. So sue them and they blacklist you or make your career nigh on impossible. That's the only reason why they haven't been sued.

[@anonluxor470]

@@corpsecoder_nw6746 even nascar and rally racing?

[@scottmeredith3359]

Pretty sure whatever waiver you sign getting your FIA license (and the venue itself, and probably the event organizers) covers pretty much anything that could happen on track. Hard to argue sausage kerbs are a legal liability when you’re willingly going 160mph through EauRogue and Radillion (as an example)

[@armadillolover99]

@@corpsecoder_nw6746 Athletes are pussies now, back in the day athletes actually put their careers on the line to make change happen. You know how we got free agency in American sports? A baseball player named Curt Flood sacrificed his career and got blackballed out of MLB so that future players could choose what teams they want to play for and get paid what they deserve. And unlike Curt Flood’s situation, this problem is one that seriously injures and could potentially kill people. Someone’s just gotta take one for the team and just hope that what happened to Flood doesn’t happen to them. (Also the FIA doesn’t control what happens in ALL motorsport, American motorsports are plentiful and the FIA doesn’t have much influence)

[@sen_ex]

@@anonluxor470 nascar is a different sanctioning body. however, FIA is the org behind most rally championships (WRC, ERC, W2RC, etc)

[@simo2805]

I remember in 2012 Vergne from Toro Rosso losing the car from having a broken DRS at the end of the straight in Monza, spinning backwards onto the sausage kerb at the first corner, obviously launched airbourne and nearly rolled. I'm surprised nobody addressed the issue at the time, and that was ELEVEN years ago!

[@inha1ed]

Honestly the abrasive tire eating surface sounds like the best idea, just have straight sandpaper outside track limits lol

[@DamianVriens]

Just grass and gravel, Makes it more of an challange then being "oh fuck I ran wide, Oh there is tarmac here lets go over it"

[@thomasholmes3303]

only thing about that is motogp also runs on some of these circuits, i would not wanna be the guy to find out how sliding across sandpaper at 100+mph feels. but yeah if implement right it would seem like a good option for 4 wheel racing, especially with how soft the compounds are in F1 at the moment.

[@combatmedic007]

@@thomasholmes3303 I reall dont know which is better sandpaper at 100+mph or a sausage kurb. I guess with sandpaper you get lucky with only ripped of skin, with sausage kurb your might be lucky to be able to walk. Either way both not sucha great solutions.

[@TonyF1MMA]

I think grass is the perfect solution. It costs you a lot of time without ruining your race, plus your tires will have grass on them for a while after you get back on track.

[@TonyF1MMA]

@@combatmedic007 grass is better than both

[@chrisbrowning360]

This is your best video yet, Josh. VERY well said! The "three brain cells" at the FIA absolutely need to heed all the warning signs because this is getting ridiculous. I love racing and I hate seeing drivers injured.

[@AntoniusTyas]

Sadly the three braincells only concerned about what drivers can and cannot wear and say.

[@philgiglio7922]

​@@AntoniusTyas or their politics, thinking Breonna Taylor and Hamilton. I feel he's right in his indignation and I agree with him on that subject

[@hugobrece2085]

The most alarming recent incident is the Porsche that ended up in the grandstands at Portimao a few weeks ago because of a sausage kerb. Fortunately, the grandstand was not crowded, but it could have ended in tragedy...

[@galliman123]

I just googled that one holy fucking shit so lucky no spectators there

[@meekrab9027]

I completely agree the sausage kerbs need to go, but several other things contributed to that 911 ending up in the stands. The apex is on a crest which helped launch the car, the gravel trap is not very deep or wide and slopes downward away from the track, and the grandstands are not far enough away from the fencing, which seems like it's only designed to catch open wheelers and not 1300 kg GT cars. I have no doubt a simple brake failure could lead to the same result.

[@kriskay5020]

"Are they waiting for the unthinkable to happen?" Yes, yes they are because it's cheaper for them to wait for a death and wait for the new standards to handed down than explore options of replacements and need to replace those if they don't meet the standards which is the sad/scary part

[@NeedforMine1]

Finally someone is addressing this again! Sausage kerbs are a cancer in the racing scene! Thank you for bringing this up

[@PanzerFalcon2232]

They're only dangerous when people forget how to race

[@Chris-xl6pd]

@@PanzerFalcon2232 Idiots take.

[@slimstrait780]

@@PanzerFalcon2232 what a shit take

[@1dameister1]

@@PanzerFalcon2232 Yes if someone does intentionally cut the corner then fair enough, that's their fault. But when the car starts spinning out and they can't do anything about it then it's like in the video where the car slides over these curbs and then good luck bringing it under control. Second thing is some of these tracks are used by motorcycles too and these curbs can be deadly for them, like literarily. I get that this should work, like in a way to punish drivers to race properly and not cheat, but there has to be a better way then this, because this is outright dangerous and causes more problems then actually solving them.

[@RACECAR]

@@PanzerFalcon2232 So your idea of punishing people who "Forget how to race" is serious injury or death. Might as well suggest sniper enforced speed limits for anyone who speeds on pit road while you're at it with that kind of take.

[@jeremythurman5261]

My kids and I were at the NASCAR race at Indianapolis in 2021. Between turns 5 and 6. Right where a car (Byron) oil pan was ripped off by a kerb (Scott McLaughlin the previous day and Bubba Wallace went airborne there). We have a field of 3500lb stock cars coming right at us hitting the barrier. Scary and wild.

[@crimson_insel]

Was NOT a sausage curb. What that was was a NORMAL CURB coming up (I don't believe it was secured properly) and spinning Byron, along with many others, into the barrier.

[@jonathonpate8330]

⁠​⁠​⁠@@crimson_inselit was a sausage Kerb, or at least a heavily raised one, but nonetheless, it is an issue, and even Mark Winterbottom (From Supercars) has raised the concern that even Supercars are no longer as durable as they once were, which is valid, just as NASCAR has done with it’s NextGen cars, Supercars also has new cars, and they may be just as durable, but they are, in the same spirit as NASCAR, rigidly built, to reduce costs for equipment, but alas, this is the same issue as F1 and IndyCar, rigid build vehicles with nil to none in suspension is terrible for Sausage Kerbs, in a way, this can result in what happened in the 2012 Boost Mobile 600 Supercars Series race in the Gold Coast.

[@ShongV]

I was at turn 1 at COTA in Austin 2021. And Christian Weir's and Abbie Eaton's trip into the sky was almost identical. Wasn't until after Abbie got hurt too that they removed the kerb in between sessions.

[@coolboombox1610]

What’s even more bizarre, Peroni didn’t break his vertibrae landing on the fence, he broke them on impact with the sausage kerb

[@JontysCorner]

Let's hope this gets more traction than I've managed to. Well done mate.

[@plazasta]

I was gonna say, I saw this and I immediately remembered your wordpress article on disaster incubation theory

[@leoa4c]

We've been talking about it on Twitter for quite a while. Unfortunately, not enough people care, and the ones who do care do not care enough. Thank you for your efforts on this and many other safety related topics.

[@jamesmcqe9287]

Thank you for all the work and info you've given us fans about driver safety!

[@hooviedoovie5220]

I like the landmine idea, or maybe outside of the regular kerbs there's a bunch of white paint that is constantly kept wet so they spin if they go too far out of track limits.

[@洪梓恩-p7z]

6:50 "Are you really going to take the Mcdonnell Douglas approach of fixing things?" As a avgeek myself, this hits perfectly. Also, what MD was back in the 70s is just like Boeing nowadays, the ways that both companies deal with problems are shit.

[@stenroelofs9077]

I mean MD is part of Boeing nowadays...

[@mattsisoler6125]

Same here. I heard that and immediately pictured the computer animation of Turkish Airlines 981 diving towards the French countryside. Hopefully the FIA isn’t that stupid to wait for something catastrophic to happen before taking action.

[@AntoniusTyas]

Both Boeing and McDonnell Douglas are shitty with their fixes even before the merger. Remember United 811 and Lauda 004? Boeing either refused responsibility or outright shirked the responsibility to the victim, respectively

[@SmackcrackIV]

Might be because a whole bunch of the corrupt, greedy, immoral execs from MD stayed at Boeing when the merger happened and have been in power ever since. A bunch of them should be in jail for life

[@juror1361]

Replace the inside kerb area with very low grip surface, such as polished concrete or painted surfaces, that provide little benefit to drive over while loaded up in a turn.

[@jeffcanyafixiy]

I had no IDEA how prevalent the injuries to drivers were. Very eye opening. 👍👍🏁

[@kelvinst2055]

I knew sausage kerbs were pretty sketchy, but I never knew they were that dangerous! great vid as always Josh!

[@BIKERGaming]

They should use sensors like in MotoGP. Probably the only thing those stewards do right imo. If you go onto the green paint it’s a warning and after 5 warnings maybe give a 5 second penalty?

[@UncleKennysPlace]

I'd rather it be a _one position_ penalty. That'll hurt more, on average.

[@-TheUnkownUser]

3 and a 5 second penalty.

[@core_russell3869]

Bring a long lap penalty to F1

[@rogerw-interested]

the teams are so far apart in performance, a 5 sec penalty wont mean much to many, kinda like Russell having free pit stop in the last race. he wasnt worried about just 5 sec

[@Imthefake]

@@rogerw-interested if you have such an advantage you don't need to gain .3 of a second cutting the corner

[@_Zekken]

My opinion is either grass, or much more strict policing of track limits. Heck you could probably make an auto detect system that detects track limit violations automatically with something like a wire running around the edges of the track and transponder in each car that detects when it crosses said wire, or something like that. Better than having kerbs causing crashes.

[@svenblubber5448]

The problem with strict enforcement and sensors is that it would mean even more races are decided by judges decisions and penalties. The cars will cross the line and then we will see who gets how many seconds added on, and a couple of minutes later a computer tells us the actual rankings! There will be discussions over x second penalties for only a small infraction that "didn't really impact the race", or comparrisons of who did or did not get a penalty. The beazty of kerbs, then grass, then gravel is the punishment for infractions happens naturally in the race, and drivers can make calculated risks, weighing up time lost/risk of getting stuck with the benefits of going over the limits. The zero consequences we currently have in places without sausage kerbs seriously impact my enjoyment of the sport, having a computer calculate who won after the fact would entirely ruin it!

[@danielmoldovan7]

They could lead to truly horrific crashes like Le Mans in 1955 or Tony Renna's crash testing at Indy.

[@core_russell3869]

I mean we were very lucky that Peroni in the f3 didn't die a few years ago because of it

[@FlashoftheBlades]

@@core_russell3869It’s a good thing he didn’t land directly back on the pavement. I shudder to think what might’ve happened had that been the case.

[@core_russell3869]

@@FlashoftheBlades absolutely, that fencing actually saved his life

[@FlashoftheBlades]

@@core_russell3869 And his back. I imagine that, if he landed back on solid ground, that broken vertebra he sustained could’ve easily been multiple broken vertebrae, or worse. Good thing that particular sausage kerb (or as it’s called in my country, a “turtle”, due to the fact that a cross section of said kerbs has the shape of a turtle 🐢 shell) was removed afterwards.

[@nashrace]

Wholeheartedly agree. I had a rear brake issue at Snetterton last year and it speared me right, over a sausage kerb and damaged both me and the car. Ban them immediately!

[@Stelassin]

Honestly it feels like the teams aren't pushing enough. We all know how stubborn the FIA can be, they don't really care if fans or a few drivers speak out about it. One way is to have all the teams collectively protest against it seriously, force the FIA to hear them. The sadder other way is like you said, wait for the unthinkable to happen so the FIA finally open their damn eyes

[@michael47882]

That’s literally all they do. The FIA has honestly done some poor work with safety these past years, including race directors. And when I say that I mean in general, there have been numerous moments throughout racing series this year and previous years as well where it’s just been an utter state of chaos. Take Esteban on his final pitstop in baku just this past Sunday for example. They care about safety but truly, they don’t care enough. Take the protesters at the formula e race a little bit back for example. They have all these protocols and procedures in place to make sure that certain things happen correctly and promptly, but yet they can hardly follow them. It’s something that should be taken into serious consideration.

[@michael47882]

And don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that improvements in safety haven’t been a massive step in where we’ve come from but it’s just the awareness in certain moments that I’m really trying to get at here. They let things fly over their head at times, and then it’s just like wtf are y’all even doing up there. I guarantee that you could put a group of fans that are really invested in Motorsport in the stewards and race directors seats and positions and they’d do a better job

[@GoldenEDM_2018]

Well the teams maybe should, you know, discipline their drivers to respect track limits.

[@aal834]

​@@GoldenEDM_2018 bait or mental retardation?

[@BrunodeSouzaLino]

Even that doesn't work nowadays. Nobody wanted to sprint in Baku. Nobody. And they had to do it anyways.

[@TheRealVranesh]

Hats off to you Josh. Your videos are awesome. Your personality and narration are amazing. I hope someone in FIA watched this and get their priorities straight.

[@y_fam_goeglyd]

Absolutely agree with you. Any other F1/FIA content makers watching this, I'm sure he's not going to mind you making a video on the same subject. The quickest way to get the fans' feelings to their attention would be for all social media "names" to do the same thing at the same time.

[@makb_the_striker]

I think that the problem should be solved in the complex: 1) classic curbs should be raised mandatory on all autodromes. Not in V8 Supercars height, but height which was in the 2000s. 2) all autodrome's runoff areas should be tested with CFD. Gravel should be brought where rolling has low risks or will not be harmful. 3) track limits abuse should be punished strictly. Not +5 seconds - drive trough after the second violation (2 intended cuts), stop-and-go after 3rd, and all next.

[@blubaughmr]

Trackside sensors might be a very good solution. Five seconds for every curb encroachment. Maybe you get a stop and go under green in the last laps of the race, with the hold time based on how many penalties you accrued, so the results on the track correlate to the time penalties. It would be a boatload of money to put them in, but if a track can put on an F1 show, they can make the investment.

[@andrewfetter4843]

I mean just using some motion cameras would do the trick to and wouldn't be that costly. If you want to add weight sensors it will get a bit more costly but camera resolution and speed are no longer an issue for this. Shows you how brain dead the officials are on this. I'm sure certain ML companies might even sponsor it to show off image recognition software to boot.

[@ameunier41]

​​@@andrewfetter4843 just like it's done in alot of others sports.

[@Max_Flashheart]

Agreed, when it goes wrong with those kerbs, it can go very wrong.

[@ryankochan34]

I remember the first race at Charlottes roval. That back stretch chicane was brutal on the cars and the Kerbs were bad. They adjusted it. It still Has unnessecarly large one but it’s less likely to launch a car now

[@vancel35]

I like the idea of the kerb at the beginning of the long run to the finish at Baku. Was it Russell that went a little wide this weekend and it didn't injure him, but it definitely slowed him down and cost him a bit of time... all while not throwing him into the barrier at the end of it.

[@APotato3000]

Sausage Kerbs DO have a purpose, it shows how important halos are

[@jordanclark4635]

Honestly thinking back to how controversial they were at the time, Jesus they’ve saved a lot of lives and/close calls over the years since being introduced, it’s insanr

[@rogerw-interested]

the thing about safety, is you never want to use/prove it, kinda like seatbelts in every day driving

[@APotato3000]

@@rogerw-interested urm actually i crash my car weekly to test my seatbelts 🤓

[@MH-is7eu]

Halo didnt cover your spine though like many examples in the video. Did you even watch the video mate?

[@givmi_more_w9251]

@@MH-is7eu Have you seen the cars flying onto another, being inches away from the lower driver's head? Did you even watch the video mate? Also, when you fly off the track through a guardrail after being launched, the halo will save you too. Ask Romain Grosjean.

[@nevillemolokwu8598]

A good solution would be track limit sensors together with strict penalties according to how much track was cut, how many times it was cut, how much time was gained and so on. It won’t be perfect but it would be much better. Drivers can still push without risking injury but be penalised accordingly if they exceed limits

[@AS19Motorsport]

Finally someone is making this video! I complained about this in a Feeder Series article about a year ago after Partyshev’s injury, and the fact that they exist is bs

[@andrewfetter4843]

Well, bring up weight sensors and cameras with asphalt run offs. It seems like the best choice. More battles, safer track, and instant penalties from the system.

[@gentiio3296]

I think the curbs they used at the 2008 singapore GP were pretty good. You lose time of you take too much both entry and exit. And they wouldnt be able to 'launch' someone up so high in the air

[@parrotantics2046]

Only sausage I want to have is one grilled in fire.

[@benjaminclehmann]

For what it's worth, I always liked the slippy astroturf strips before the runoff, it makes it slower to cut the corner and they were normally followed by tarmac runoff for safety reasons, which is hard to exploit for a time advantage since if the strips are wide enough you have to cut so far that you're going to get a time penalty. They did have some problems, they were a lot better at preventing you from extending entry/exit than they were at preventing you from cutting the apex, since it's a shorter distance across the turf rather than along it. They also often needed repairs, though the similar slippy wood planks achieved similar things while being more reliable. However, the main reason they got axed at most circuits is because they were unsafe for motorcycle racing.

[@tomislavvranjes1610]

Love ya Josh, keep up the good work!

[@jackchallis9456]

Great video Josh, these things are a menace and need to be taken away. My potential solution? A one or two metre strip of grass lining the circuit before the now traditional run off area. Drivers won't overstep the mark, and if they do, are punished for it with minimal risk of injury

[@fraja666]

Absolutely agree with you 100% They may have been a deterrence back in the day to an extent but now are a nuisance. The cars are running lower and faster than ever. It's just a matter of time before there is a fatality due to these God awful sausage kerbs.

[@000BlackSoul000AMVs]

I think they should remove the sausage curbs and implement a "no touch" zone instead where touching it means getting a track limits warning or penalty.

[@ForzaPolska06]

Yes Get this thing out of racing I said it on the other video but it seems that FIA will only react when someone gets killed, just like in the gOoD oLd DaYs

[@Nswix]

FIA doesn't care. They're in the business of being the FIA, not caring about racing, racing drivers, racing staff or racing fans...

[@rudrakshmishra2761]

Cadillac number 3 crashed in the 6 hrs of spa this year and that was primary due to suspension bottoming out and the sausage Krebs bruh

[@frontsnatch]

True, especially after ground effects became a thing: if you hit a curb, you lose downforce. Lose downforce, you become Zhou at Silverstone.

[@SuperBakura]

I think grass is the option but maybe a very low grip material beyond the kerbs.

[@TheTeremaster]

Problem with anything low grip is what happens when a car has two tyres on the track and two on the slippery surface. Sounds like the perfect way to turn an F1 car into an uncontrollable beyblade

[@absurdist5134]

Your point about warning signs is pretty on point. We know they're dangerous because they've proven to be. They should be immediately done away with. Sophia's crash should have been the death knel. If we want to solve drivers going wide, they need a safe solution.

[@brazilianhuevolution6431]

Just do the IndyCar way: no track limits rules, because there's grass around the track.

[@jeffreytenthije]

Ah yes, the cota last turn thing

[@matthewbuttery8529]

Turn them into Virtual Crash Zones. Paint the area orange and if a driver goes over it they're out of the race. Safe and fair. Keep it on the track.

[@xcite.]

Yup agreed @JoshRevell. On another point, as much as i love DRS, i kinda wish it wouldn't be allowed and or more be used more restrictively. it's a hot take, but when teams such as redbull are gaining so much because of it, i feel as though in general, not just for the sake of RB dominating, that it should be either pushed back in the initial laps (2 to 3or4) or something along those lines. And the concept of changing, and/or restricting DRS doesn't entirely get rid of it, because the fans love the close actions and overtaking, but it would really then bring the core of the car design (aero and much more) AND engines back into the main factors that determine RAW top speed. Just an opinion :) On that note, i have no negative bias towards RB, they are absolutely killing it. And as a long term Checo fan, i support the team, and many others... mercedes' big 'Sir Lewis Hamilton'

[@MattyT_86]

Genuinely jaw-droppingly frightening. I wouldn't want to compete on a circuit that had these in place.

[@SiVlog1989]

I was half expecting to see your take on the near miss that was Ocon nearly inadvertently ploughing into photographers as the Parc Ferme was being set up before all pit stops had been made. That was scary

[@mikebate6719]

FIA will probably try to solve it by putting a sausage kerb on pit entry.

[@Struggle.Snuggles]

I think one of the easiest fixes would be changing the design of were the kerbs meet either gravel/grass/runoffs with a pattern that will actually slow a car down with odd patterns that put pressure on the tires, thus reducing their speeds.

[@technerd9655]

Would rumble strips work? Sure it would be a bumpy ride, but the high point is equal to the track surface and the low point is a few cm (or a few dozen mm if you prefer mm), I don't think this would cause the cars to fly up in the air, more like significant bottoming out.

[@ohthreemusic]

they can work well in very slow, tight turns like the chicane after the tunnel at monaco but it really needs to be a lot more situational than it currently is

[@efthimiossakarellos7150]

Suggestion 1: replace sausage kerbs with infrared lasers (like on a computer mouse). If the beam is broken, race control gets a notification. Then they can go back and watch the footage to see who broke the beam - apply penalty. Suggestion 2: Replace kerbs that define track limits with extremely slippery surfaces like teflon. If a driver goes too far over the track limits, they spin out.

[@CurtisSmal]

intentionally having drivers spin out definitely isnt the answer (they could spin into other cars, the wall, the spin could change their momentum towards the track once they gained traction back), the laser idea is a good shout though.

[@EquiliMario]

Purposely causing spinning is also very dangerous

[@danielfay8963]

Having a lower traction material is a good option, but you definitely don't want them to spin out. If you force a spin, you end up with an on-track crash. If you just force a loss of traction, you likely won't crash but you will compromise their corner, making pushing it non-optimal.

[@pikkyuukyuun4741]

improventment on suggestion 2: line the track limits with tank mines so anyone explodes crossing it

[@verticalflyingb737]

@@pikkyuukyuun4741 This is the correct solution that the government doesn't want you to know.

[@alexsp4853]

here's an idea the FIA might like: replace the sausage kerbs, infact might as well replace every kerb, with razorsharp knives and blades. make them rotate and set fire to them, add a little bit of brick wall behind that and you've got yourself a track limit enforcing border with 100% chance of punishing those overextending, with shredded tires, suspensions, floorbodies, and humans

[@lolumo]

I agree, Stefano Dominicalli needs to banned

[@42mag]

Just thinking about one of those cars clearing a fence because they ramped off a sausage curb should be enough to get rid of them.

[@jadakgaming]

I've grown up doing dirt oval stock cars. I have always wondered why the DRIVERS weren't ever part of the decision making process for track & safety adjustments. Not sure if F1 does as I'm not super-well versed in F1 behind the scenes.

[@Evilpengwinz78]

F1 has the Grand Prix Drivers' Association (GPDA), who have historically been a major part of safety improvements since foundation in the early 1960s. A lot of its early safety work is often erroneously attributed to Jackie Stewart alone, but the cancellation of the 1969 Belgian GP and 1970 German GP for safety reasons came before he was its chairman. They disbanded for a while, then reformed after Imola 1994 and are still active to this day. I remember a few years back after Silverstone 2013 and the tyre blowouts, there was some people saying that there might only be 3 drivers taking part in the following Grand Prix at Hockenheim (the 3 drivers not in the GDPA that season), although that never actually happened. Then more recently, the decision whether or not to race in Saudi Arabia following the missile strike nearby.

[@mateusbez2669]

Great Video. Just a reminder, on this May 2nd, that Ayrton Senna had been protesting against the lack of safety of the F1 cars of the early 90s for years, and had considered not racing after Ratzenberger death as a protest.

[@snobey]

FIA when the see another accident because of sausage cerbs: No, we need to keep them for safety FIA when they see devices, that improves stability and safety: BAN

[@auburnltl7452]

6:48 As an aviation geek, that had me on the floor. Very well done!

[@forestsofneon9073]

Even more respect for Sophia having watched this. I hope she gets into a decent car and then an F1 drive.

[@walover165]

It really does feel like they're waiting for someone to die. When everyone can see the problem and the list of injuries is growing and they still won't do anything, it's pretty clear.

[@mrj3217]

Thank you sir. We love racing but never want to see a driver, team member or fan get hurt due to something that could have completely been avoided.

[@SeasideDannyB]

I swear, the FIA is asleep at the wheel. Safety should not be optional in this environment.

[@kian_de_gamer1638]

It's sad that something serious needs to happen in F1 for the FIA to take action...

[@FormulaFox]

The best way to discourage track limit violations while retaining the safety benefits of the large runoffs is simple: A 2-meter-wide strip of grass on the outside and inside of every corner. Enough to mess with the grip enough to punish any transgression, whilst the tarmac runoffs remain to slow anyone who goes completely off and out of control.

[@samueljayachandran2849]

Being strategic with gravel such as on exit of slow or medium speed corners is one answer. But at Eau Rouge: gradual changes from Paul Ricard’s runoff to astroturf to then gradually inclined mounds of gravel.

[@enduser178]

I'm only just getting into paying attention to racing, and it's BAFFLING that ANYONE in charge would see the first car rocket into the air over one of these and NOT go "oh, right, maybe this isn't safe let's get rid of those and go back to the drawing board." Thank fuck for whoever had the idea of that halo system.

[@Medevah]

I hate to use Paul Ricard as an example, but the high abrasive runoff areas are super effective at keeping drivers on the racing surface. You run wide at 8 a few times and you just lost two laps of life in your tires. That’s the answer. Fight me.

[@BillyRamirez]

You got a shout out about this during Italian F4 Championship - ACI Racing Weekend Misano - Race 3! In the video, it's at 16:00, race time it's at 22:16 + 1 Lap.

[@GabrielCassandri]

I remember the F1 drivers breffing in Monaco where Kvyat called it "yellow trampolim" and asked if it would be possible to put a wall like 20 years ago

[@ElectricBluePresents]

Great video! Not only are sausage kerbs dangerous to drivers, but also dangerous to fans and marshals... get em gone...and put gravel and grass down where possible to stop drivers exploiting the track limits. And in any areas where those are deemed too dangerous for whatever reason, either put down a sensor or hire someone to sit at said corner and call in any potential TL violations.

[@racer3175]

I used to race against Christian Weir. It was pretty cool to hear you mention him in this video. Sucks what happened but it’s still kinda cool that I personally know one of the people mentioned in this video

[@nickfiggy28]

I will say so far grass seems to be the most useful strategy. Given tracks such as suzuka and the red bull ring both utilize it the best to limit track exploitation. Plus because of the tires smooth surface, its unlikely that the car will roll if sliding sideways over grass. Its already extremely effective at slowing down a car substantially, and the cars extremely rarely get stuck

[@JohnSmith-cq7lk]

These kerbs makes it feel like we're living in the olden days before safety or common sense were invented.

[@tomfreeman]

Maybe an incremented risk beyond the track limits...flat kerb, half metre of grass, 1 metre sand trap to crud up the tyres for a lap and then police stingers. Sorted.

[@W123KartSport]

Great job as always. One thing I would add is that the racing surface is defined by the white lines on the tarmac. If you have two wheels on the exit kerb, technically speaking those 2 tyres are outside of track limits. Not that it matters. It becomes an issue when the driver goes 4 wheels off.

[@OutLanderUSN]

It would likely end up making some of the racing less entertaining, but maybe they need to start penalizing drivers for even letting two wheels over.

[@FrittenFriseurLPs]

Thank you for this video. In (Internet-)Germany we say "Richtig und Wichtig", which means: Right and important.

[@wheresbicki]

Also Indy Lights at Road American 2022 has a bad curb crash. Sent the car flying into the fences, luckily its double fenced so no spectator casualties.

[@NotOwen82]

5:26 is at the Charlotte Roval (Roadcourse-Oval) and clamied about 6 cars that weekend and about 3 million in damages and was so bad the had to remodel the chcanes once that weekend at 3 times since then

[@lberc20]

My local karting track has kerbs right on the apex that pretty much deter you from hitting your apex correctly for how punishing they are, and how much they hurt to hit, not only for you, but for your kart chassis and axle.

[@cyaanghoost]

On April 30, 1994, that's pretty much what happened to Roland Ratzenberger: he damaged his car on a high curb, comparable in height and function to these sausage curbs, and the front wing got stuck under the front wheels in a 300 kmh curve...

[@michaelwilkie35]

Nearly pissed myself at the “McDonnall Douglas” approach joke 🤣

[@Shinsoku99]

I was livid after the 2019 Monza incident. Not just because that crash looked horrible, it was literally just a week after Hubert fatal crash. Ever since that day I have a big issue with these abominations.

[@l1ttleprotag370]

I love that you show the curbs in Gold Coast without showing what happened last year.

[@carculture3376]

Driver: Runs a little wide. Sausages kerb: "You have chosen.....death"

[@jonathanbarnes11]

They could probably replace sausage curbs with many pieces of vertical facing rubber, basically a series of tightly grouped rubber flaps. With cars that rid so slow hitting this would likely causing a significant reduction in time and possibly floor damage without the risk of cares going air born. You could even combine that with a rumble strip and it would make going over track limits pretty unpleasant and costly without causing catastrophic crashes.

[@TheRayKh]

I agree. The problem is that the FIA is reactive not pro-active. They're understaffed and try to bend the stick until it'll inevitably and sadly break. The other problem is that teams who speak out about those things might get hindered by another one for pure competitiveness. We just need to remember how the Halo was implemented and how some teams and even drivers (I know...) were vehemently against it until the FIA stepped up and forced it on safety measures ground. Sadly, some human beings are stupid.

[@northdkt7088]

It feels bizarre that these curbs were not banned after like one or two big incidents caused by them, and are still used on tracks to this day. In days when even the smallest of things are scrutinized by the FIA in the name of safety, this is just unreal that they leave the most obvious on-track danger untouched

[@rubenspons]

Crazy to think that Mercedes was effectively lobbying to stop porpoising, for future health issues, but sausage kerbs are just fine! Even though they have caused more injuries.

[@louisbeerreviews8964]

Kerbs are dangerous

[@GPitstra37]

5:59... i don't want to open old wounds. But yeah.. without that sausage kurb it would not have been that horrible of a crash at that slow speed

[@madMARTYNmarsh1981]

I think a highly abrasive patch on the curb is a good idea, not something that will kill a tyre on the first touch but where it will damage the tyre in such a way that repeated violation will have a serious impact on over all race time. Have the abrasive patch only where the car isnt allowed to go.