Being a older gent I seen alot of carnage, alot of it first hand. Some would be my friends racing in t-shirts with 50 gallons of gas, open helmet and a lap belt from a junk yard car.
Now you have really safe cars and barriers but anyone that races in any car going over 200 mph has to know that it could happen at anytime.
Theres nothing wrong with the cars and speeds that are being raced today, what might be the problem is who gets to race them. It always amazes me that you can put a bunch of 410's on a track and they can go nuts without drivers crashing everybody, but put the suppossedly best drivers in a Indycar or Nascar and they cant get a few laps in without someone taking out the pack.
Nobody likes death or injury, but thats just a part of racing, when it isnt part then the last bit of life has left the sport.
This might sound sick to some of you but as a family we've sat around the racecars and as a family we all figure it wouldnt be a bad way to go. My wive see's me grinning when I sit in my car and she has said before that for me crashing to my end wouldnt be that bad compared to other ways you can go. I passed away twice on a life flight, just wasnt my time. When it's your time, it's your time. We just had a truck crash here. The guy survived a 150 plunge in a big rig unhurt. Crawled up the hill and was run over by another truck just as he poked his head onto the roads shoulder., killed instantly. When death wants you it takes you, might as well be living life at the time.