The problem here has been the logic that what a person does in this situation is simply matter of choice that impacts them and them only. This is wrong on multiple levels. All the arguments about how the world should be are irrelevant - that's not the world we live in anymore and we all have to deal with it. Take insurance - when accidents happen - one way or another we all pay for it because in the end costs are passed on to the consumer. In racing if insurance rates go way up, pit passes go up, if pit passes go up, admissions go up, if costs go up, purses don't go up. Risk management is just that - it reduces the exposure the company and business faces to hold cost and litigation down. What would be the Public Relations damage from a particulary ugly situation -- and in a host enviromnent where Lanny and Emmett spent years fighting the neighborhood on noise- and then their complaints sent HAZMAT in with air qualtiy measures. The promoters worked hard wooing political support to minimize the risk that the event would be shut down. Imagine this scenario in a courtroom. Judge: Mr. Hahn, would you consider this to be in line with current standards of safety? Let's take a human scenario - You take your child to the track as I have - and here would be a likely conversation - Hey Reid, there's K.O. he is a really great racer, he's in the Hall of Fame - and a really great guy. Dad, is he that funny guy you talked to that had the monkey. Yes. Yes, racing accidents happen - I have lost count of how many fataliities I have seen, but they pale in comparison to my friends that are older than me and you wonder how many were preventable. I'm a hard core racer, and nothing shakes me from this - but I saw accidents - and accidents that involve fire, and one haunts me to this day ---- And finally, I don't want to think about midget racing without K.O. he's just as funny with a firesuit on.