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Originally Posted by 77T

Agree - the corner workers are told to keep the pins in until responding. The truth is more fire bottles are discharged by inadvertent handling than in fighting fires. This is due to stumbles, falls and overturned bottles. We have advocated for a double trigger safety like you see on Glock’s. The pins mean the bottle is never ready - the trigger would keep inadvertent discharges from happening but automatically disengage once the handle is pulled.

The Medical Car you saw is different than pace or safety cars that are used to pace the field formation lap or the restarts. It always follows standing starts for the first lap. The doctor who helped the corner worker with the fire bottle was most brave as he ran into the flames to grab Grosjean when he leaped over the barrier.



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As I have mentioned previously, those corner workers extinguishers, have been shown, yet again, to be less than adequate, even in the hands of the bravest of race marshals.
In this case, the Doctor seemed more au fait with the mechanics of the 'trigger'..maybe he was just a bit calmer.

It's an understatement to say, how fortunate all those involved in the incident were, that Grosjean wasn't knocked unconscious.
The consequences of that scenario, don't bear thinking about.......or, maybe, they do,.....and in some depth.

Fortune smiled at F1 on Sunday.