Early racing wrecks , not for the squemish

[84shelby]

 
Had this fwd to me,  thought to share. Hope the link works

puts into perspective how dangerous racing is and was .


http://vimeo.com/20247765

[cudaken]

Guess it only took, what 20 years too wise up?  Just proves guys are not that smart! 

Cuda Ken

[polywideblock]

might not have been that smart but they had a HUGE set    if you get what I'm sayin

[500Jon]

Hi ChargerFolks.

Those guys were proper TOUGH!
Like 'GP' Bike riders today!
Not all wrapped up in 'cotton wool' like modern racing car drivers!!!

Didn't kill myself when i was young, guess I was lucky?

500Jon, older and still stupid !

[tan top]

  crazy stuff ,

[FlatbackFanatic]

Wow...just crazy...

[wingcar]

Can you say....seat belts.

[polywideblock]

back then they thought that they stood more chance being thrown from the car    just watched a doco on the early years of formula one "life on the limit"  

[Mike DC]

Can you say....seat belts.

Only if roll bars are also part of the package.  


That video has popped up on car forums a couple times in the last few years.  Shows how dangerous early auto racing really was.  Even decades later it was still bad.  

I don't think it got a lot better until things starting changing in motorsports in the early 1970s.  Speeds all over the racing world were getting so fast it was threatening the spectators and killing too many of the popular drivers.  

So the racing organizations started imposing real limits to the growth of speeds year after year.  That allowed the safety race to finally start regaining ground on the speed race.