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Old 1st Aug 2009, 02:04
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SilsoeSid

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Right, now the serious bit has been done;

If you look closely at the pictures you can see that the tyre wall has a smear of yellow paint from Massas helmet.


So what are you trying to say?
a. The HANS was of no relevance as the car punched its way into the barrier too far.
b. The HANS allowed the head to go too far forward.

In fact, the only reason that the 'yellow' is there, would be because the rubber skirting around the tyres came down into the cockpit briefly, as can be seen in the video at about 50 seconds.

As for the rest of your comments...



If you look at the colour of the helmet,



The yellow on the tyre wall matting, if it was indeed from the helmet, would have come from the top. So if you are going to discount the matting bending over, the only other way the yellow of the helmet would get there would have been for the HANS to have failed allowing the top of the head to move from the vertical to horizontal.(which in the vid, it doesn't)
So that paint is irrelevant in your argument.

As for the rest of your comments
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