How Racing Safety Has Evolved Comments Off on How Racing Safety Has Evolved
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May 15, 2017 by
Martin Banks
Former F1 pilot Hans Stuck is credited with one of the most memorable quotes in autodom.
“When I raced a car last,” Stuck proclaims, “it was a time when sex was safe and racing was dangerous, now it’s the other way around.”
Social commentary aside, Stuck is right. The advances made in safety for racing drivers over the last half-century have reduced the sports mortality rate by orders of magnitude, and even allowed drivers to walk away from crashes that at one time would most certainly have been fatal.
Even now, engineers and medical experts work tirelessly to continue to improve the safety record of a sport that is inherently dangerous. Let’s take a look back at how things came so far.
