On 2022-05-19 4:15 p.m., bra wrote:
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/may/19/formula-one-carlos-sainz-worried-health-drivers-bouncing-porpoising
As I have posted before, we have entered a norm in which the old
pleasing notion of 'becoming one with the car" is now exposed as
serious drawback.
This is quite different from latter day drivers who bounced around in
their seats in inefficiently-sprung cars on rough tracks.
Today's drivers are superbly strong and fit and healthy, but, as a
Dakar winner once described modern rally driving, "Your body is like a
milkshake." At the Austin track, a W Series driver suffered two
vertebral compression fractures vertebrae [and they HEARD the crack]
from simply running onto a sausage kerb and getting bounced.
People who were primed to scoff at Hamilton's and Russell's complaints
may now listen to a Ferrari driver.
I never scoffed at either of them.
I cannot imagine how bad that is for the drivers. I know my 60-year-old
body couldn't possibly stand it.
On 5/20/2022 6:20 AM, Alan wrote:
On 2022-05-19 4:15 p.m., bra wrote:
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/may/19/formula-one-carlos-sainz-worried-health-drivers-bouncing-porpoising
As I have posted before, we have entered a norm in which the old
pleasing notion of 'becoming one with the car" is now exposed as
serious drawback.
This is quite different from latter day drivers who bounced around in
their seats in inefficiently-sprung cars on rough tracks.
Today's drivers are superbly strong and fit and healthy, but, as a
Dakar winner once described modern rally driving, "Your body is like
a milkshake." At the Austin track, a W Series driver suffered two
vertebral compression fractures vertebrae [and they HEARD the crack]
from simply running onto a sausage kerb and getting bounced.
People who were primed to scoff at Hamilton's and Russell's
complaints may now listen to a Ferrari driver.
I never scoffed at either of them.
I cannot imagine how bad that is for the drivers. I know my
60-year-old body couldn't possibly stand it.
I believe it was probably Henry Manley
writing fiction
for Road and Track magazine back in the 1970's was
expressing concerns of needing selective breeding
or surgical additions to handle the increasing
forces of then 'modern' F1 cars. i.e. detaching
retinas and separating kidneys...
On 5/20/2022 3:38 PM, a425couple wrote:
On 5/20/2022 6:20 AM, Alan wrote:
On 2022-05-19 4:15 p.m., bra wrote:
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/may/19/formula-one-carlos-sainz-worried-health-drivers-bouncing-porpoising
As I have posted before, we have entered a norm in which the old
pleasing notion of 'becoming one with the car" is now exposed as
serious drawback.
This is quite different from latter day drivers who bounced around
in their seats in inefficiently-sprung cars on rough tracks.
Today's drivers are superbly strong and fit and healthy, but, as a
Dakar winner once described modern rally driving, "Your body is like
a milkshake." At the Austin track, a W Series driver suffered two
vertebral compression fractures vertebrae [and they HEARD the crack]
from simply running onto a sausage kerb and getting bounced.
People who were primed to scoff at Hamilton's and Russell's
complaints may now listen to a Ferrari driver.
I never scoffed at either of them.
I cannot imagine how bad that is for the drivers. I know my
60-year-old body couldn't possibly stand it.
I believe it was probably Henry Manley
Henry N. Manney III
writing fiction
for Road and Track magazine back in the 1970's was
expressing concerns of needing selective breeding
or surgical additions to handle the increasing
forces of then 'modern' F1 cars. i.e. detaching
retinas and separating kidneys...
I don't recall such, but if so it was probably one of the articles in
the Cyclops saga.
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