Somehow there are actually fans upset that George Russell wants Formula 1 to implement an automated safety system that will suspend racing after incidents where crashed cars are stranded on the track.
Let me make one thing very clear: drivers already put their lives on the line every single time they get in their cars, they do not owe it to anyone to stay silent when measures can be taken to mitigate further risk.
Have we learned nothing from the t-bone crashes that took the lives of Dilano van 't Hoff and Anthoine Hubert?
If the only type of racing you enjoy is one where the drivers are in more danger than they should be, I can safely say that you are not a real fan.
Jules Bianchi’s Helmet (2014 season) alongside his godson Charles Leclerc’s tribute helmet (Suzuka 2024)
Charles has recreated several designs from Jules original helmet and will be wearing it at the ten year anniversary of the 2014 Japanese Grand Prix, Jules last race
sorry to be insane about motorsports on main, but what trips me out every time i really think about it, is that the machines, be it cars or motorbikes, are specifically made for their pilots. and the riders/drivers are the souls of the motorbike or the car. the engineers and mechanics build these monsters of machines, in hopes it will carry their chosen and trusted pilot to glory. it is such a tender give or take.
here: we made you a machine only you can handle. its metal and engine and all my knowledge. it's hours and days spent designing something just for you, for this moment in time. nothing will be like this. i am trusting you with it.
here: i am putting my life and sanity on the line with only this thing carrying me toward the checkered flag and champagne and hopefully my name to be etched into history books, at an inhumane speed. thank you for the trust.
pilots usually name their vehicles. whenever they get to keep a world championship winner ride they get so happy. i think about how marc marquez can identify the tracks just by the sound of his engine, because he is so in tune with the bike and the tracks. i think about sebastian vettel bowing to his red bull rb9 after winning his 4th world championship. i think about valentino rossi at his retirement ceremony, before his last race, where they brought out all 9 bikes. how he looked like he still knew each of them in his bones.
how in these sports the human and the machine are inseparable, and how without each other they don't make sense.
formula e teams voting against letting the WEC drivers race in the Saturday berlin race are so annoying like... why are double headers even classified as the same event? each day has its own practice and qualifying session????? why do drivers now have to miss TWO races, opportunities for huge amounts of points, just because they also race in another series, a clash with which shouldve been avoided BY FORMULA E BECAUSE ITS NOT LIKE THEY DONT KNOW HALF THEIR GRID HAVE OTHER JOBS