A Brief Look at Formula 1 Safety

Formula 1 Safety

Safety has always been a slightly difficult topic in motorsports. Automobile racing is a dangerous sport, and some say that this danger is part of the sports allure. In fact, Ernest Hemmingway, the famous author once remarked that, “There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely game.”

No less of a racing driver than Sir Stirling Moss explained to a rapt audience at the Goodwood Revival that the inherent danger of motorsport was part of its appeal. In fact, it was more than a half century before that he had suffered a near fatal crash on Easter Monday 1962, at Goodwood. “It was a lot more dangerous back then, but one of the reasons that I entered motor racing was because it was dangerous. To me, as a professional racing driver, the fact that it was risking your life actually enhanced the pleasure,” said Moss.