On Sat, 14 Apr 2001 15:47:48 GMT, "Kevin Gavitt"
>> Here are a fabulous series of articles on 1960's Formula One races
>> centered on Jim Clark and Dan Gurney. The 1967 season is in part 5 and
>> Jim Clark's death is detailed in part 6. For those of you who were not
>> around or old enough in those days to know about this stuff, and have
>> discovered the era though Grand Prix Legends, part 5 and 6 at least
>> are a must read.
>> http://www.atlasf1.com/2001/jan24/okeefe.html
>> http://www.atlasf1.com/2001/jan31/okeefe.html
>> http://www.atlasf1.com/2001/feb07/okeefe.html
>> http://www.atlasf1.com/2001/feb14/okeefe.html
>> http://www.atlasf1.com/2001/feb21/okeefe.html
>> http://www.atlasf1.com/2001/aus/preview/okeefe.html
>Fortunately, or unfortunately, I remember the times. I was a Clark fan, and
>a Siffert fan, and Courage, and McLaren, and Rindt, and Cevert, and
>Peterson, and particularly Donohue.
>I drifted away from following racing closely for a few years in the early
>90's, and then saw Greg Moore driving his family owned Indy Lights car and
>that brought me back to the fold.
>The more things change, the more they stay the same.
>KFG
Yeah - as Dan Gurney said after he killed a spectator at Zanvoort,
"This is a cruel sport." Always was, always will be. Growing up in a
racing family in the 50's and 60's I saw all my heroes killed,
somethimes in person. Racing myself for 12 years, I saw many more. I
started racing with 4 other guys. They all got killed. Today's race
fans do not have a tough enough mental mindset. They grew up in the
"safe' era and in the past few years it has gotten more lethal again.
Many can't handle it. Want to point fingers of blame everytime one of
their heroes is carried off on his shield. Maybe that's good. Maybe we
should have done that too. Maybe it would have gotten safer, sooner
had we not been so numbed to it. But I have always looked at it,
"Nobody puts a gun to your head to climb into a race car."
