Quote:
Originally Posted by Spi-nex
How about we get rid of ALL track walls... Nice run off area all the way around. Tear down all grandstands, install cameras, then livestream to the audience. Upon selling the PPV we must mandate all customers to wear bubble wrap and helmets just in case they can't contain themselves from the "edge of your seat" excitement. Or how about pulling drivers out of the cars completely? We can make all cars remote controlled. It's certainly possible with today's technology and would make things MUCH SAFER for all involved....
Part of the titillation of racing is the constant dance with fate. You take that away, you really gut a core ingredient of the sport. Sure there are a lot of things that could be done better or smarter, but at the end of the day it's our freedom of choice that matters so long as we are willing to live with the consequences.
|
This idea that any move to kill less racers is akin to wrapping ourselves in bubble wrap and being afraid to cross the street is absurd, and a really tired argument. Nobody is asking for that any more than you would advocate for taking cages off and banning helmets and fire suits while installing spiked poles in the middle of the back stretch. Asking tracks to address design flaws that inure, maim, and kill drivers is not bubble-wrapping our world, nor is it seeking to fundamentally alter what racing is.