My friend was the CEO at Winton Raceway. He was amused when I told him motorcycle road racing is safe. A lot is in the definition. If the risks are all minimised to a tolerable level, the activity is safe. How would you like to be defusing booby-trapped bombs during the blitz in London ? I have worked in places where you could literally lose your life in a flash. It would be as though you had never been here. To me, road racing is as safe as houses, as long as the risks are minimised. I don't think anybody ever seriously races on the IOM. If you approached the corners with the same mindset you use on a normal circuit, you would probably die very quickly.
Went there, after many years of wanting to go, just to watch, not race, all I can say is there are two types of racers, one who is trying to win, the others who go fast, but at their own pace. Wouldn't want to go there myself, except for a few areas, there isn't any run off places so no safe place to crash.There speaks someone who has never been. Keyboards are safe. Go there before you die, then when you've seen it, please give us all a thorough report about how they're not racing. Or, just see if "MySeeley" is still in your shed ..........
Hmm. Try watching some Irish roadracing, then decide whether or not these blokes are "seriously racing" or not. Buggers are absolutely mad, but very serious indeed.My friend was the CEO at Winton Raceway. He was amused when I told him motorcycle road racing is safe. A lot is in the definition. If the risks are all minimised to a tolerable level, the activity is safe. How would you like to be defusing booby-trapped bombs during the blitz in London ? I have worked in places where you could literally lose your life in a flash. It would be as though you had never been here. To me, road racing is as safe as houses, as long as the risks are minimised. I don't think anybody ever seriously races on the IOM. If you approached the corners with the same mindset you use on a normal circuit, you would probably die very quickly.
I can understand it that someone who doesn't check their facts despite having the WWW at their fingertips, but one or two of us are getting old now and suffering all sorts of problems, some have dementia and cannot remember how many times they have posted the same old, same old. . . . now where was I?