As I said, I know my opinion would be
highly unpopular. Still, I think that my point is not about making the racing 100 sterile and watch them going around at 20 km/h speed limit - it's just about the one well-known obviously dangerous corner.
You talk about risks, but I don't think that they are racing to find out "who is the most risky driver". I think it is about who is the most skilled and smart driver, and such things can be shown on tracks which has no such unnecessarily dangerous corners as Eau Rouge is. This is far from "usual human risk". I know very well that the tragic accident can happen at the racing car competition obviously. But again - if this is a sport, then you need to minimaze all the possible risks to harm human's health (participants, spectators, track personnel and so on). Just like they had strengthened the wheel anti-separation protection (I dont know what the term is but I'm talking about the cables preventing the tyres from separating from chassis after the crash mainly) after we lost Henry Surtees, for example. But I don't think that anything can happen to Eau Rouge corner, since F1 is not about sport, but more about "show" these days. Even Ross Brawn, who has an engeneer origins, now is talking about F1 as the "show" (seems like this is a main Liberty Media agenda):
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Ross Brawn, less than a week ago:
"I think with the 10 teams we have, 10 healthy teams in F1 is actually enough. And if we do get any extra teams they have to really add to the show. We must learn from history, so many small teams came and went, and didn't really add to F1"
So, yeah. This is not about the
competition of the talented constructors and engineers (such as Brawn himself) anymore (like it was throughout the golden era of F1 racing with the names like Colin Chapman, Gordon Murray, John Barnard and so on), but rather about the show with the night grand pries (just cos they "look cool" ), fireworks at the race start and finish, and with the underside plank returned from early 90's just to produce flashy sparks, lol, This is all so fake, that I barely watch F1 now (don't even know yet who've won the Belgian gp today). And this flirting with the "adrenaline" and "risk" matter, making the racing look "spicy" (with all this moaning - "oh, we might could've forgot how dangerous this sport is" ) is also fake. You know what? Racing will stay dangerous because of its nature, even if you'll get rid of one obviously life-threatening corner. But I'm dead sure that Eau Rouge will stay because it adds to the show this feeling of knowing that somebody can crash right there, at this exact spot, with a possible bad outcome. Don't you feel something when the car goes off at Eau Rouge? I felt so when one of the Renaults crashed at the exit a couple years ago, I remember how it feels like.
In other words - we know that the marthial arts is a dangerous sport as well and people are there to effectively knock their opponnent out, but no one gives them razors or swords, you know, to make their fights even more dangerous and deadly.
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