F1 2026: US GP - Miami (May 3rd)

[Toad]

Since this is now an N24 thread, and not an F1 thread:

One driver killed in a massive multi car crash during the N24 qualifier. I have still to see a single clip of the accident, increadible that there's no footage.

[Toad]

Some on X says it's Juha Miettinen.

[M5Rick]

Originally Posted by ///M Power-Belgium

It's wet . Just like at my place , the weather forecast is rain ...

Dry and sunny here, a perfect day for that run. Took some of those turns quicker than I ever did on these new Falkens..location is a secret

[Toad]

Pic of crash

[Toad]

If it's true it's Juha Miettinen, then he should be the driver of the light blue BMW seen in the left of the frame of this clip (only footage of the crash currently available).

[///M Power-Belgium]

Originally Posted by Toad

Since this is now an N24 thread, and not an F1 thread:

One driver killed in a massive multi car crash during the N24 qualifier. I have still to see a single clip of the accident, increadible that there's no footage.

RIP Juha Miettinen (!)

[///M Power-Belgium]

Originally Posted by Toad

If it's true it's Juha Miettinen, then he should be the driver of the light blue BMW seen in the left of the frame of this clip (only footage of the crash currently available).

[M5Rick]

Originally Posted by ///M Power-Belgium

RIP Juha Miettinen (!)

Fatality so a thorough investigation into what caused it will be ongoing and with so many wrecks could take some time.

[Toad]

Originally Posted by ///M Power-Belgium

RIP Juha Miettinen (!)

AI slop with not a single image related to the car crash that happened today.

[///M Power-Belgium]

Originally Posted by M5Rick

Fatality so a thorough investigation into what caused it will be ongoing and with so many wrecks could take some time.

RIP (!)

[///M Power-Belgium]

Originally Posted by M5Rick

Fatality so a thorough investigation into what caused it will be ongoing and with so many wrecks could take some time.

It was Pilot Juha Miettinen in a BMW 325i (#121)

[M5Rick]

Originally Posted by ///M Power-Belgium

It was Pilot Juha Miettinen in a BMW 325i (#121)

Just thinking it may have been the upturned car you circled which impacted onto the barriers.

[Toad]

Originally Posted by ///M Power-Belgium

Crazy pic, put that was not from today and the crash in question. The bimmer that crashed should be blue, I posted a pic of it earlier in the thread where i speculated it could be Juha Miettinen.

The guy who made the video you got that picture from is so incredibly immoral and greedy that I don't have words.

[///M Power-Belgium]

Originally Posted by M5Rick

Just thinking it may have been the upturned car you circled which impacted onto the barriers.

According to the comments : There was an oil or fuel leak at the track .
The cars involved in the crash were reaching that spot at 220 km/h (!)

[M5Rick]

Originally Posted by ///M Power-Belgium

According to the comments : There was an oil or fuel leak at the track .
The cars involved in the crash were reaching that spot at 220 km/h (!)

That's about 137mph..for sure the Green Hell is not for the faint hearted and even CC brakes have a limit !

[Car-Addicted]

The more things change the more they stay the same.

[Toad]

Originally Posted by Toad

The guy who made the video you got that picture from is so incredibly immoral and greedy that I don't have words.

Haha I see the video is deleted now Not sure if it was him, or it got reported and taken down or anything else.

[Toad]

Originally Posted by Car-Addicted

The more things change the more they stay the same.

I've been following Indycar this season (and IndyNXT last season), hoping Dennis Hauger can show he's worth it to one of the good teams. Hoping for something like top 10-15 this season, that would be an amazing result for him I think.

[M5Rick]

Originally Posted by Car-Addicted

The more things change the more they stay the same.

Luck of the Irish..certainly O'Reilly got their fair share of advertising thanking Mick

[GuidoK]

Misha Charoudin's video on the death of Juha Miettinen:

[Toad]

Originally Posted by GuidoK

Misha Charoudin's video on the death of Juha Miettinen:

A terrible and tragic freak accident. And from what we know currently, not his fault at all

Ultimately though, this is racing, and this is the Green Hell after all. Put any normie in the car with these drivers and they'll say "Holy shit you're crazy going this fast". They take a risk, and they know they take a risk.

I hope there will be no increase in safety regulations because of this. That is, if it applies to the cars or anything that would be (in any way) detrimental to the pleasure of the racing sport for the spectators. I'm not necessarily against increasing safety of the barriers, although they'd ultimately make it even more expensive for normies to drive on the ring. And we don't even know if softer/slower barriers would make a difference in this instance.

This isn't the first soul the Green Hell has consumed, and it certainly won't be the last. We all got to go someday (and somehow), it's an inevitability of life, a result of being lucky enough to even have a chance of life.

Was this the worst way to go for Juha Miettinen? Perhaps...

...but also, perhaps not. And for all we know, perhaps it was a good way to go?

R.I.P. Juha Miettinen, along with all the others that I do not know the name of.

[GuidoK]

Yeah racing and safety is always a very complicated discussion.
Especially with tracks like the Nordschleife. Incredibly beautiful, so much history, but also unsafe...
Although racing cars (and the protection barriers) get safer all the time, the cars themselves also get a lot faster, so chances are that crash impact speeds go up too.
But it's always difficult to make regulations that make the cars slower because of safety.
Especially F1 is supposed to be the pinnacle of motorsports.
Although making the cars radically slower (say narrower tyres, harder compounds, smaller engines) I think won't give less spectacular racing, but it also doesn't invite people to watch 'the pinnacle of motorsports'
Indicar basically has a cupcar (Dallara I think) and is only popular in the US but not in the rest of the world.

Of course there are also races like the TT of Man. Those guys are nuts but something inside me says that I should go in the very near future now that it's still held yearly. Talk about historical significance.

If you ask me: better to die at 66 in a racing accident than to die at 66 from cancer but that's not a fair comparison of course.
Less than 3 years ago Dilano van 't Hoff died at Spa in a formula class at only 18 years old. That is very sad. So young.