While it's incredibly sad, it's a worry that the Police feel the need to start such a big investigation - there were shots on the TV news of the Police photographer getting pix of bits of debris and stuff.
Cars crash in motor sport - nobody tries to make it happen (well, not usually) but it happens anyway. The real result of this big reaction is that it (whisper it) brings the sport into disrepute.
So, can CAMS take action against the media, the Police, the organisers? No, so they have to have their own investigation.
And really, the guy had a heart attack. Whose fault is that? Nobody's, that's who. So why investigate? If he'd had the same heart attack as a result of a traffic accident, everyone (except his family and friends) would be shrugging their shoulders.
Let's face it, the Police hate it that motorsport has found a way of going fast without their being the opportunity for the Police to get in the way. So every time something like this happens, they get out the tape measures and the cameras.
Same thing happened with the guy getting killed at Eastern Creek and when Mike Burgmann died. For Christ's sake, they laid charges over the Eastern Creek thing. Nobody held a gun to the heads of any of these people - they put themselves in harm's way.
And he'll have signed something very like this:
http://www.cams.com.au/downloads/eve...claimer-12.rtf
And maybe the thread title should be 'Driver dies after exiting East Coast Targa.'
Bruce Moxon