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Moment in which the fire started in F1 Williams Garage, Barcelona, - 2 Videos

Seems due to an electrical problem with the KERRS system, it was a small explosion then fire, some minor/moderate burns on 3 ppl maybe and smoke inhalation. Nothing more serious actually.

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In the second video you can see the efforts to domate the fire while panic spread.
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Added: May-13-2012 Occurred On: May-13-2012
By: breccia77
In: WTF, Sports
Tags: barcelona, F1, williams, fire, explosion, car, race, gp, 2012
Location: Barcelona, Cataluna, Spain (load item map)
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  • A kinetic energy recovery system (often known simply as KERS) is an automotive system for recovering a moving vehicle's kinetic energy under braking. The recovered energy is stored in a reservoir (for example a flywheel or a battery) for later use under acceleration.

    Huh.Learn something new everyday

    Posted May-13-2012 By 
    Fire37Rescue (12235.20)  

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    • @Fire37Rescue just to add man, the batteries store up to 60Kw of energy of which the driver can release this energy by pressing a button on the steering wheel giving him an extra 80BHP for the time he has the button pressed. They are restricted to about 7secs a lap of KERS which can be used all at once or in small doses throughout the lap. It makes driving in the wet a lot more difficult due to the harvesting of the energy through the rear wheels under braking.

      If you've ever see a recent graph More..

      Posted May-13-2012 By 
      Gimpo (183.42)  

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    • @Gimpo
      Very cool.Thanks for that.My question is, how does stored electrical power get converted to power a gas piston engine? Is there a second electrical engine output?

      Posted May-13-2012 By 
      Fire37Rescue (12235.20)  

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    • @Fire37Rescue Good question, either by a flywheel powered by the harvested energy which is connected to the engine when KERS is activated by the driver or the harvested energy is stored in batteries and when driver activates KERS it powers an electrical motor connected to the engine. When KERS was introduced in 2009 i think all but Williams F1 team went down the battery/electrical motor route (Not sure if this is still the case). Theres pros and cons to both like weight, packaging etc.
      A simple More..

      Posted May-14-2012 By 
      Gimpo (183.42)  

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  • What a race that was, shame Williams first win in 8 yrs was marred by this. I hope no one was seriously injured.

    Posted May-13-2012 By 
    Gimpo (183.42)  

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  • Some high quality photo's in this link;

    http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/formula-1/f1-fire-pastor-maldonado-wins-831782

    Posted May-13-2012 By 
    Obba41 (382.66)  

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  • Burn the whole fucker down, then rejoice in the ashes.

    Posted May-13-2012 By 
    LickMyDuck (546.60)  

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