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This is the biggest threat humanity has faced together since World War II and will hopefully peak soon then drop off and then we can return to normal in the next few months and get back to racing in nice weather in front of happy and healthy spectators.Ĭompanion video for article:- Knockhill Rally Experience It has killed thousands of people and will kill many more, personally I don’t think the global response has been an overreaction and we need to treat this seriously. As mentioned above – the decision taken needs to be a conservative one and that means postponing the racing at present.Ĭovid-19 has a mortality rate far higher than any seasonal flu, is highly contagious and we do not have a vaccine yet. Maybe people have family and friends that are ill and this is on their mind too, as anyone who competes knows your focus and mental state are as important as your physical condition. So we could run the event without spectators, but does anyone actually want to compete at an empty circuit? Competitors may be suffering from cold/flu like symptoms themselves and entries due to this may be low. If the government do not stop us racing – what options are there? In actual fact you may think, at a racing circuit a gathering of 500 people would be pretty spread out so are the risks the same? The competitors, officials, volunteers, circuit staff and most importantly paying spectators do come into contact at the café in large numbers.
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I am sure most drivers would have wanted to compete but the decision taken was a conservative one biased towards safety when faced with the unknown, and that is where we are right now. Bridgestone runners were not affected in the same way so we saw the bizarre sight of only 6 cars taking the start as the remaining cars pulled into the pitlane. The photo that headlines this article is from the disastrous 2005 United States Grand Prix where the banking of the Indianpolis Motor Speedway started having an unexpected and potentially catastrophic effect on the Michelin Tyres.
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Anyone who has seen the movie “Rush” will remember Niki Lauda talking about this. We are used to taking risks – calculated risks but still risks when we get in the car.
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Driver safety is not best left in the hands of the drivers themselves – most drivers would choose a faster yet more dangerous car over a safer but slower one.
After the events of 1994 in Formula One where both Roland Ratzenberger and Ayrton Senna were killed I remember FIA President Max Mosley talking about this. This however does not mean my decision would be correct. I am a racing driver and given the option I would almost always choose to race rather than not race. Public opinion seems split – with many thinking it is an overreaction and media hype, some believing it is just like the flu while some are extremely concerned about it. The pandemic has caused chaos around the world and has caused most major sporting events to be cancelled with it looking likely that the United Kingdom will see major gatherings of greater than 500 people banned in the next few days. This article is entirely my own personal view and I am not speaking in any other capacity than that of a club racing driver. It is a flu like virus that is highly contagious and has resulted in 5,443 deaths from 146,352 known cases. At time of writing (Sunday the 15th of March 2020) the world is gripped by a global pandemic known as Covid-19.