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Originally Posted by bjohnsonsmith
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Nobody is denying IT happens. Anyone that thinks open wheel formula racing is now or ever will be "completely safe" is a moron as far as I am concerned.
The human body can only take so much.
The point of all this which people want to gloss over in their desperate plea to keep the irl alive is that it's not just an incident here and there, after which changes are made or improvements sought. This is a chronic long standing issue that has been going on for years and years. Just watch all the irl crashes on youtube. Tim is going to try to link one incident here and there in CART 15 years ago to paper over all the long history of horrific bone crushing accidents and aerial flights in the irl and it falls short of reality here in 2011 and to act as though that is supposed to rationalize the pack foot to the floor racing on steep ovals at 225 mph in cars nose high ass down ready for takeoff.
The irl sat and encouraged all this along. The irl after all in the past has used huge crashes in it's promotional materials and tv ads.
After the accident people protested that action would be taken and things would be done. I was right all along about the irl. All we have gotten so far is a bunch of weaseling out of responsibility and a bunch of pr fluff, rationalization and excuses. It's just this time a fatality happened on live tv instead of in qualifying, practice or testing, so they got caught with their pants down.
They don't care, they never have cared and they never will care.
There will be more mewing and moaning and eventually this will fade from the headlines. Nothing will change. The people that need to be paid will be paid, drivers will be shamed into "performing" as rodeo randy already did this year and the circus will continue.