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So much for the "no more climbing wheels and launching cars."

Nope. When a car even nudges one in front, you can see the wheel guards bend. In any sort of impact which would be fast enough to cause a take off, the guards completely buckle and make contact with the rear wheel anyway. They are not only worthless, they are ugly and an extra puncture risk.

But I, and others, said that when they were first shown, and we were shot down saying that they are stronger than we think.

Marco's car behaved weird after that contact...

Poor move from Rahal IMO. Can't chop across like that.


Absolutely no mention yet of how Tagliani got his damage.

Scary air for Marco

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That would of probably of went down exactly the same, wheel guards or not.

Oh fantastic, these cars easily fly through the air....

[youtubeidiot]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWCRCP6GO44[/youtubeidiot]

I blame Rahal 99% for that collision.

There's about a 4" gap between the end of the wheel guard and the outside edge of the tyre, all they need to do is make the guard wide but as we've been saying for months, it still won't fix the problem.

If I were Indycar, I'd be more concerned at the way the car reacted when it actually hit something solid, than it taking flight, anybody who's been round racing knows you'll never stop cars flying ever, they'll always find a way to.

how fast are they going on that part of the track? certainly nowhere near oval speeds.

Very bad move by Rahal

in my opinion, the wheel guard don't work at this accident!

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Been fair most open wheel cars would have gone up like that after that sort of contact.

That's promising, these things fly. Brilliant...

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Yeah, I don't see anything unusual about that incident.

Dixon has conked out.