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Originally Posted by chrismattlin
The problem is, Brickyard, that you and IndyCar keep leaving larger and larger chunks of fans behind in an obsessive search of progressivism. Before long, you and a few of your closest buddies will find yourselves alone in the "new decade/century". Safety first!
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Those who would stop watching due to a safety advancement aren't fans to begin with, so good riddance. Not a single person with a functioning brain cell would allow their employer to be negligent in the area of safety and I highly doubt a single one, nor their families if it resulted in death, would wait more than a few hours to contact an attorney to sue the pants off that negligent company if an accident happened due to said negligence.
The fact is the tech has advanced to the stage that we can protect the only thing left unprotected in formula racing without changing the whole formula, even LMP2 went enclosed cockpits and top fuel has enclosed theirs. This ****'s still ultra dangerous just off the speed alone, look what happened when an F2 car was t-boned at Spa in Eau Rouge a few weeks ago. The danger aspect is still there and will always be there, but there is no reason we should have drivers injured or killed because they couldn't dodge and errant tire, a piece of body work, or have a car land on top of their exposed heads because one got flipped up on top of them or they ran up under the rear of one. I can pull up tons of footage in IndyCar where it has happened or we have come close to it happening and the chance of it has increased in recent history due to the closer racing that results in multi car accidents.
If you are OK with killing drivers with errant debris then by all means, kindly show yourself to the door.