Aren’t you cute!

As to who I am, that’s no business of yours. If I wanted that to be public knowledge it I would use my real name for my username. I don’t. As to where and what: British Motorcraft Formula Ford 1600, British Rapid Fit Formula Ford 1600 Championship, Champion of Brands Formula Ford Championship, Champion of Snetterton…

I know what racing is about. I’ve done it! Have you? Or are you just another one fretting over what “we” have to do as you sit on your couch watching on television? I’m fed up to the eye teeth with people that have never so much as sat their backsides in a car telling us what must ne done to protect us from ourselves.…

Yes! Motor racing is dangerous. Get over it.

You might start with “July Crisis” by T.G. Otte.

Not sure which books you’re reading, but you need to find some better ones.

Tom Pryce wasn’t decapitated. He was however killed instantly and his car carried on down the straight at barely reduced speed before colliding with Jacques Lafitte and sending them both into the catch fencing.

Smiley’s body was described as “a leaky bag of blood” by one of the first responders. He had been warned about the way he had been driving by such as Bobby Unser who had told him not to turn into it if the rear end stepped out. He apparently was determined to break into the 200 club after Tom Sneva had broken through…

Wtf kind of stupid comment is that?

Salt Walther didn’t die. He was badly burned, but very much alive. In fact he came back to run at Indy the following year. He tried to make the race in 1990 but was bumped by Rocky Moran.

Where was the force of the impact directed? You’ve answerred your own question.

Yes, lovely taxpayer funded dollar signs.

Puts me in mind of Takeshi Yokoyama’s Japanese F3 shunt at Fuji in 97. Both shockingly violent. Thankfully this ended better.

I doubt it played even a minor part.

Several teams in Europein the early 90s, including some Formula Ford teams, used to run the toluene based fuels that F1 was running then in testing. I never really understood the point. You couldn’t run it in a race, and it was hideously expensive, but it did make you go! It was never a secret who was running it,…

And the driver needs to be as light as possible so that the seat can be ballasted to keep the cg as low as possible.

Yeah, because why actually DO SOMETHING when you can make believe you’ve done it? I’ve long held the belief that the FIA was run by a bunch of idiots who frankly couldn’t give a toss about motor racing as long as their gravy train kept on chugging but now I’m sure.

This! What doesn’t get mention though is that the idiot grandson didn’t just devastate Indy Cars and, in my opinion, irreparably damage the Indy 500, but his hand grenade also devastated the open wheel ladder in the United States. There had been Barber Saab/Barber Dodge, USAC F2000, Toyota Atlantic, Indy Lights, all…

Tony George was a track owner/race promoter. He wanted a position on the CART board because he thought he deserved a say in how CART was run. He didn’t, Anymore than any other track owner did. It was AJ Foyt that got in his ear and pushed the idea of the IRL. CART had it’s share of issues to deal with, but the IRL was…

Autoshows are going no where, especially the marquee events like LA and Chicago for the simple reason that introducing new models isn’t the be all and end all of the events. I know, I know, it’s tough for journalists to believe that there is any purpose to to the shows but to provide them with fresh cud to chew, but…