It's to bad the rider died so young, as far as an age requirement I've seen 15 year olds drive better than some 50 yr olds. They couldn't drive nails in a 2X4, so what do you do. Require a license like NHRA does for certain classes?

The government should stay out of it. They have many other issues at hand, but that is what many of us thought while they are concerned about performance enhancing drugs in baseball?? Some high dollar lawyer will stir the pot. This is the same government that sends our young men and women into combat?
Before someone starts complaining, I served 10 years as a U. S. Marine and this is the best country on the planet, those in D. C. need to check their priorities.

Racing organizations and participants should be able to govern themselves.

While there are areas where the government is needed to regulate, this isn't one of them. However......if the racing community doesn't do something, I'm afraid that the government will. What, you say, should the racing community do? Don't ask me; ask those who are involved. If done right, self-regulation is best.

It might not be the goverment that causes the most trouble. It may be the insurance companies. I could see the insurance companies making changes quicker than the goverment. Of course, I am way old school in my thinking and think that you should be 13 before you can even enter the pits. 16 before you can drive.

I am in my early 40's and have been chasing race cars since I was in the first grade. However, I could not imagine ever putting my nine year old in a race car. This was a very high profile case, but through the interent we hear about these type of tragidies more and more. It seems that about once a year that a parent losses a child to a racing accident. While I love racing and I am trying to pass the passion on to my son, I could never imagine pulling him out of a wrecked car.

I can still remember the story last year on this forum about the son that wrecks violent down the back strech. When the dad gets to the car, the son is crying and said "Dad, I can't see" I never want to see my son in that situation.

If that many little kids are dying running motorcross then there is something wrong with motorcross.

As for the God Lord, maybe his plan was for smarter parents.

My son ran quarter midgets for 4 years from age 8 to 11.....I saw plenty of bad wrecks that the kids walked away from and in many cases got back in the car and finished the race. This was due to the safety requirements of QM racing. Had I witnessed something different I would have pulled my kid from the car.

I can't imagine having my child in a sport where multiple kids have been killed and still allowing him to run. No thank you.

We run mini-sprints now....we spare no expense for safetly. We have been involved in and witnessed some nasty wrecks. In every case the driver has come away unhurt. The day I start seeing drivers dying behind the wheel is the day my (now 15 year old) kid will be done with racing.

716 bicyclists died on US roads in 2008 (698 in 2007, 1,003 in 1975)…Bicyclist deaths represented 2 percent of all 2008 traffic fatalities…One-seventh of the cyclists killed were between 5 and 15 years old…and bicyclists 15 and under that had been injured requiring medical attention was 13,000!

We going to take them bikes away?

That's an interesting analogy but it would be better represented by the number of bikes to bike accidents.....my guess is the number is very small.

How about a quarter midget, go cart or mini cycle?? At what age do you let a kid ride a bicycle??

How the heck did we ever make it through childhood alive and live to see Social Security creeping up on us ?!?!?

I was told by someone that saw the crash that the wreck did not kill him, yes he went down stood right back up waved he was OK and was hit by another racer. That is the story that the media is not telling everyone. They are making it out the crash itself is what killed him.

In defense of the media, Curt Cavin's article in today's Indianapolis Star explains the accident.

http://www.indystar.com/article/2010...-t-involve-IMS