Re: Bang and bash Historic racing.
Posted: Fri May 06, 2011 9:38 am
I very enjoy very much spectating at historic race meetings; to see all of those magnificent cars being "raced" at 10/10ths is incredible.
However crashes do happen & it is saddening to see the wreckage in the paddock after some of the races.
The owners of those cars know well, that these things can & do happen & I envy them their wealth to be able to take that chance every time they go out on track.
On the other hand I do query their mind set because in those old cars they can seriously bend themselves as well.
Fortunately I've rarely witnessed crumpled drivers at those meetings I've attended; the worst offenders & the most serious crashes seem to occur in lower value cars such as Caterhams or Formula Ford but that may be put down to the drivers having more competitiveness than experience.
Thankfully the guys who race the extremely fast F2's, F5000 type of car are able to run fast competitive races without messing things up too much; at those sort of speeds in those old type of cars things could get tragically messy indeed.
Just my take on the subject.
John
However crashes do happen & it is saddening to see the wreckage in the paddock after some of the races.
The owners of those cars know well, that these things can & do happen & I envy them their wealth to be able to take that chance every time they go out on track.
On the other hand I do query their mind set because in those old cars they can seriously bend themselves as well.
Fortunately I've rarely witnessed crumpled drivers at those meetings I've attended; the worst offenders & the most serious crashes seem to occur in lower value cars such as Caterhams or Formula Ford but that may be put down to the drivers having more competitiveness than experience.
Thankfully the guys who race the extremely fast F2's, F5000 type of car are able to run fast competitive races without messing things up too much; at those sort of speeds in those old type of cars things could get tragically messy indeed.
Just my take on the subject.
John