The song is ok. The footage is better: [ame=http://vimeo.com/20247765]Killed Myself When I Was Young on Vimeo[/ame]
So, you noticed the lack of harness, helmet, chest protectors, knee pads, elbo pads, roll bars etc and still they were giving it all they had? Jim
That is the way it was back then Jim. Sadly that is why there are not many old racing drivers at the retirement home. Those guys well very tough for sure.
Sure gives you respect for those guys. Of course, they didn't think twice about what they were doing. They just wanted to race! Safety wasn't a concern.
I hadn't thought about it that way, but you are right. They did not think about safety the way we do today. I remember being told "don't get hurt", "be careful" or "your going to hurt yourself", but never "that is too dangerous" or "you can't do that". Jim
I am sure it WAS a concern, but they were using the most modern things available to them on things they had no idea about. They didn't have anything like nomex for fires and seat belts and roll cages were a by-product of what we are watching here. Just like they will look at things we do now in a hundred years and say "What were those morons thinking???" We are having fun and doing it as safely as we know how. They were doing the same thing. We use what we have.
Wasn't only the in car safty equipment, the tracks were as dangerous as the cars... Heck half of them in places were just a narrow path through a forest of trees, with hardly any run off and no guard rails to keep a driver and car from impaling themselves into them... It truly was crazy and the guys doing it had to have man bearings to spare...
I agree completely & rallying today remains the same. Look at what happened to Kubica just a brief time ago. Large bearing indeed!
You make a good point John. I have some pictures of me, when I started to ride horses seriously, going over jumps with my baseball cap on backwards. Now I wouldn't think of doing it without my helmet and that was a mere 20 years ago. Jim
I am not trying to put myself in the same league as those guys, many of whom are my heros, but when I was getting the harnesses for my cars my primary concern was to be held in the seat for consistency through the turns. Safety was secondary. //flame suit on.
:cornut: For me it was the song and video. Kind of soul searching for us old broken down soldiers. Sort of a 'Post Traumatic Stress' song.............back to the thread. Jasonopcorn:
Sadly, that is no longer true. I have found myself of less "heart" lately than in my younger days when driving with a purpose. Things like cost of repairs, responsibility, mortgage, et. al. enter my mind just before every corner. :frown5:
