The thing that amazes me is not so much the cars and drivers.
After all they couldn't invented saftey measures of today out of thin air in the 50's 60's and 70's, and as I believe said on the programme the drivers said no choice. You race dangerously or not at all. This sadly is the way if was and had to be.
But what does seems strange to me is the things that could be changed there and then.
The crowd and camera men.
They all stood on the edge of the track, but surely after one incident of crowd getting killed by flying cars, thats something you can control and change and yet they still done it.
And I only speak for myself but if there were no fences at silverstone when i went a few years ago. I wouldn't have gone and stood on the edge of the track as metal travelling at 200mph is going to hurt if it hits you and drivers always can make mistakes.
Surely people of the time didn't stand in front of trains thinking "No danger here". They kept clear knowing it wasn't safe so why they didn't move back for there own saftey seems unbelievable.
Very good and insightful program though.
Not so keen on the first one.