Helmets on the starting line now? (1 Viewer)

[Mooseman]

This I have never understood, parts go flying at a motor race, the safety debate gets dragged out every time. Ball goes into the stands at a baseball game and the crowds knocks each other over to catch it. Go figure.

My dad was playing golf once and knocked a lady out cold with his golf ball once, he took a swing and she was walking across the fairway and the ball and her head crossed paths.

 

[.]

Dale E was steadfast in his refusal to wear a HANS. Which if worn, would probably have saved his life.
Wasn't it just a few years a go a car did somehow come back up track to the starting line and hit and kill someone, the drivers son IIRC, at a private test?

That was Shelly Howard and her son that both died.

 

[PJ]

It's one of those things where people complain that it is wussifying the sport but then when something happens, they will complain that there were easy fixes and why weren't they used.

 

[Speed1288]

Sounds like a "a friend of a friend of a friends buddy heard...." type of situation.

 

[Toejam]

Dale E was steadfast in his refusal to wear a HANS. Which if worn, would probably have saved his life.
Wasn't it just a few years a go a car did somehow come back up track to the starting line and hit and kill someone, the drivers son IIRC, at a private test?
Around that same time, maybe it was at Indy, a funny car throttle inadvertently "whacked" when the team lifted the body and the car lurched, one crew member was thrown into the air, and was lucky to get out of the adventure with a broken tooth?
Didn't a pro crew member lose a leg due to a 4 wheeler accident in the pits?
Easy to complain about stupidity and people not taking responsibility or looking to cash in on injury either accidental or devised, but humans do make mistakes (part of the entire deal) and the devices they build fail or misbehave unexpectedly sometimes with violent consequences.
What's the risk tolerance? Over time, it's dropped lower and lower. Maybe it isn't a 'shirt sleeve' environment out there anymore.

You sound like a Personal injury Lawyer Kevin!

 

[qtermile14]

Dale E was steadfast in his refusal to wear a HANS. Which if worn, would probably have saved his life.
Wasn't it just a few years a go a car did somehow come back up track to the starting line and hit and kill someone, the drivers son IIRC, at a private test?
Around that same time, maybe it was at Indy, a funny car throttle inadvertently "whacked" when the team lifted the body and the car lurched, one crew member was thrown into the air, and was lucky to get out of the adventure with a broken tooth?
Didn't a pro crew member lose a leg due to a 4 wheeler accident in the pits?
Easy to complain about stupidity and people not taking responsibility or looking to cash in on injury either accidental or devised, but humans do make mistakes (part of the entire deal) and the devices they build fail or misbehave unexpectedly sometimes with violent consequences.
What's the risk tolerance? Over time, it's dropped lower and lower. Maybe it isn't a 'shirt sleeve' environment out there anymore.

The Indy Funny Car incident was when Dickie Venables worked for Tony Pedregon.