Originally posted by Lifew12
I know all that,)although I did think it was reformed at Monaco, not Imola) but the fact remains those very same drivers had been moaning about various corners prior to that Imola weekend, yet did nothing.
The same thing happens now, and has happened between then and now.
Besides, I seem to recall it was Mosley and the FIA who - at the next meeting - took things by the scruff of the neck and implicated changes.
Of cource the drivers did nothing, although berger back in 89, when he had his crash at Tamberello and talked to Senna about getting rid of that "damn" wall, they inspected it, and found the river behind Tamberello prevented a major change of the wall, so that was that. Yet they didn't have the conviction to go the FIA or the track people and state changes, it was perhaps the risk involved in driving in f1 at the time, and no one had died for a while, so it wasn't followed up. The idea of chicanes like we have now there, just wasn't the flavour in that era, drivers took risks and for a long time, were lucky, until luck ran out at Imola 94. The major changes of chicanes and car changes to improve safety, things like the suspension piercing into Senna's head and being the major killer blow that killed him, was what killed him, the wall was another problem.
It's like your username my friend, LIFE, when anyone dies, suddenly people jump to do something and learn from it, yence no driver fatalities since Imola 04, lessons were learned, Senna and Roland played the large tragic heroes of the true gladitorial era of f1.
No one thinks any driver is going to die in the current f1 era, while prior to Imola 04, the Senna era and before it rid on the curves of luck and chance often, after Imola 94, enough safety has been done to f1 to make drivers feel safe, no driver will die in f1 again it seems, it just doesn't seem it will happen again, it's a different era, maybe that is also the danger, it can't be 100% safe, a freak accident like the one that killed the marshal at Monza 2000_RIP, is always possible. Wheels stay with cars now, they were likely missles before Monza 2000.
The danger to spectators is perhaps always there, we haven't seen a f1 car launch in the air until the last time back at albert park 2001 I believe, the Jacques and Ralf crash, the car didn't go through the fench or over the fench, but maybe it is possible. The hockenheim crash in 2001, MS's car went pretty high, MS's car rolled over many times at albert park practice in 2001
And MS after spinning out on that river that took many, came close to a crane at Brazil 2001, what if he crashed into it, the ferrari president Luca commented on it after the weekend.
Also marshals themselfs are always taking a risk, they more then spectators are worth looking into, the freak accident of Monza 2000 shows the element of chance in this sport.
Get alot of crashes together, alot of debris, like Spa 98 or Monza 2000 crash, and things can happen.The car is made up of many bits, all that speed, it's like scrapnel if the right crash comes along, and it'll hit some flesh. Like someone shooting a bullet far away through a wall, and it ends up hitting someone.
