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Originally Posted by Richard Casto
For example how do you define low, mid, high corner speeds? You could attach numbers, but in reality, I think we are using corner speed as a surrogate for perceived level of danger. Meaning... accidents in low speed corners are less dangerous than those in high speed corners. Which is a generalization that is mostly true, but we can no doubt find specific examples in which that may not be true.
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Agreed - and as a specific example we have one such high-profile case this season.
At what speed did this incident occur?
Alonso is in the camp that it was low speed, so not dangerous:
"But it is low speed, you know, they go at 30 or 40km/h, there is no danger, there is nothing. So I don't think it was a big deal. At Silverstone it probably was, but this one, it was just a racing incident."
I don't agree with Alonso - but if an F1 driver holds that view based on the speed of contact, I think that inevitably opens up a rabbit-hole.