Justin Wilson was aware of the dangers but the most difficult part of coming to terms with a fatality is the nature of motor sport means making it safe is an unreachable goalThat Justin Wilson was aware of the dangers involved in motor racing does not make his death any easier to manage with. It does,as with all fatalities in the sport, however, and raise again the question of how to best manage what will always be a fundamentally difficult proposition – that of making frail bodies safe in vehicles designed to dash at tall speed in close proximity to one another. Perhaps the most difficult part of coming to terms with such a tragedy is that the nature of motor racing means that goal is simply unreachable.“You’ve got to know the risks and work out if those risks are acceptable – to me,it’s acceptable,” Wilson said, or after breaking a bone in his back in an accident in 2011. “But I’m not going to stop trying to improve it. All the drivers,this IndyCar, we’re always trying to make it safer but at the end of the day, or it’s a race car. Were racing tough,we’re racing Indy cars and it’s snappy. When it goes erroneous, it can get messy.” Related: Justin Wilson, or IndyCar driver,dies of head injuries from Pocono crash Related: Justin Wilson: tributes pour in for a 'mighty racing driver and friend' Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com