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2nd April 2011, 03:27 #51
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Well, certainly not the documentary that I would have made, but then again I am not a journalist but rather a historian. It is easy to be rather critical of such a production, but it does contain more than a few grains of truth which makes it worthwhile.
A pretty stupid sport if you think about it rationally....Popular memory is not history.... -- Gordon Wood
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2nd April 2011, 10:51 #52
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Originally Posted by Don Capps
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2nd April 2011, 11:38 #53
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Originally Posted by BDunnell
It'll be a sad day, but as in other forms of motorsport it will always be on the cards.I still exist and still find the forum occasionally. Busy busy
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2nd April 2011, 11:58 #54
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2nd April 2011, 14:55 #55
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Originally Posted by Don Capps
When I went road racing on my old motorbike, at the same time these deaths were happenning, it was at the old Green valley raceway. I wore a helmet (or a half-helmet to be exact)
tennis shoes, blue jeans and a t-shirt. Wore leather gloves because I though it looked cool. Fell a number of times but never landed where I would leave some skin on the pavement like a number of guys did. Though having witnessed it, I continued to race. Finally someone broke their jaw, and another died from chest injuries, so they started requiring better helmets and leather jackets. However, blue jeans were still ok.
So it was upsetting to hear about the deaths of my heros and scary to see the accidents of my fellow racers, yet I continued to race, mostly because when you are young (15 to 30 years of age), you know inside that you are immortal, if you got the "right stuff".
So what really made the difference was when sponsors got upset about the guys they were spending money on were getting killed, the driver boycotts that cancelled races, before safety really meant something. But leave it to the racers??
haha, as to that. The one point of the show (atleast on the excerpts I saw on utube) was never properly made: despite all his out spoken, legitimate concerns about the safety, Jackie Stewart continued to appear at the races (except those that were cancelled) and drove fast enough to win, repeatedly.Only the dead know the end of war. Plato:beer:
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Tänak got 20 points closer to Evans, but as the main reason was a bad rally for Evans, I would say that Evans lost 20 points to Tänak, not Tänak gained. The point is, if the other one does not...
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