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Originally Posted by SS 376
I will bet next year they will have tires or something like that at that turn. With racing, it seems like we have to lose someone for things to get safer. The HANS device didnt become mandatory til after Dale Sr. died, and F1 didn't really start putting tires in front of bare concrete walls til after Senna died.
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It's unforunate, but yes that's usually how we get safer equipment. I think part of the issue is that designers can't foresee every type of crash and sometimes only find out about deficiencies after it costs someone their life.