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[TerryS]

for interest

 

Disasters That Changed The World Of Motorsport (msn.com)

[WonderWoman61]

Looks interesting

[Allen Brown]

Advert-filled clickbait

[BRG]

Advert-filled clickbait

Yes, and anything that shouts "changed the world" is usually garbage.  I saw a Youtube vid about the late Ken Block that claimed he had "changed motorsport".  Nope, he was minor figure on the fringes of the sport who had zero real impact.

 

Things that genuinely changed our sport were not single big events.  They were changes of direction such as rear mounted engines, wings,  ground effect, gradual safety improvements, excessive budgets, TV coverage and so on.

[Manfred Cubenoggin]

Bernie Ecclestone.

[uechtel]

The only one that comes into my mind that did really change "the world" (in the sense of a radical change and not only some minor improvements to the current format) was the Paris-Madrid race of 1903, which put an end to traditional town-to-town racing. Unfortunately they missed that one out...

[Glengavel]

I'm not sure Niki Lauda's accident really changed anything other than to remove the Nürburgring from the F1 championship? That might be seen as disastrous by some, I suppose. Stewart's first lap accident at Spa in 1966 was more instrumental in bringing about change despite Stewart emerging relatively unscathed.