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Re: Are you a Spartan ?
Posted by 'SimonS' on 11 Jun 2010 @ 08:16

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You seem to be missing the point.

The impetus for greater safety in F1 did not come from the government, the spectators, the organisers or even the busybodies with no better thing to do in life, it came from the drivers.

The most dangerous sport** in the world is probably horseriding, with something like twice teh number of deaths and serious injuries of motocycling. Yet there are millions of people who climb on a horse everyday. **Apart from the deliberately dangerous ones like Rush Hour Street Luge or Extreme Free Climbing.

Indeed, every day millions of people ingest poisons of all sort, knowing that one mistake will kill them.

The TT is no different.

No doubt there are groups who want to stop people smoking, stop people drinking, stop them from eating fatty foods, ban horses and so on, but they aren't going to be successful until they get the smokers, drinkers, sausage eaters and horse riders to agree.

And so while the majority of the people of the Isle of Man continue to approve of the TT, while the drivers want to do it, then let them.

After all, if it was banned, the drivers would just go and do something equally dangerous. Did you know there were groups of people who hurl their bikes 45 feet in the air at over 60mph, and deliberately turn them upside down and lots of them fall off; what do you think the death and injury rate is there?

There are other groups who travel to Switzerland to commit suicide in comfortable surroundings. Maybe we should ask them to race in the TT instead?

Message Thread:

Ian Hutchinson - TT legend........ by 'Newshound' (10 Jun 2010 @ 22:10)

Re: Ian Hutchinson - TT legend........ by 'BrianP' (10 Jun 2010 @ 23:13)

Re: Ian Hutchinson - TT legend........ by 'itpro' (10 Jun 2010 @ 23:31)

Re: Ian Hutchinson - TT legend........ by 'richpudd2003' (10 Jun 2010 @ 23:55)

Re: Ian Hutchinson - TT legend........ by 'itpro' (11 Jun 2010 @ 0:19)

Re: Ian Hutchinson - TT legend........ by 'richpudd2003' (11 Jun 2010 @ 0:40)

Re: Ian Hutchinson - TT legend........ by 'Newshound' (11 Jun 2010 @ 0:28)

Re: Ian Hutchinson - TT legend........ by 'itpro' (11 Jun 2010 @ 0:48)

Re: Ian Hutchinson - TT legend........ by 'RotaxTim' (11 Jun 2010 @ 1:01)

Re: Ian Hutchinson - TT legend........ by 'itpro' (11 Jun 2010 @ 1:16)

Re: Ian Hutchinson - TT legend........ by 'RotaxTim' (11 Jun 2010 @ 1:18)

Re: Ian Hutchinson - TT legend........ by 'itpro' (11 Jun 2010 @ 1:33)

Re: Ian Hutchinson - TT legend........ by 'Newshound' (11 Jun 2010 @ 0:40)

Re: Ian Hutchinson - TT legend........ by 'itpro' (11 Jun 2010 @ 1:00)

Are you Labour? by 'RotaxTim' (11 Jun 2010 @ 1:05)

Re: Are you a Spartan ? by 'itpro' (11 Jun 2010 @ 1:26)

Re: Are you a Spartan ? by 'SimonS' << You are here!

Simon by 'itpro' (11 Jun 2010 @ 10:22)

Re: Simon by 'davidmc' (11 Jun 2010 @ 10:26)

Re: Simon by 'itpro' (11 Jun 2010 @ 11:22)

Re: Simon by 'davidmc' (11 Jun 2010 @ 11:42)

Re: David by 'itpro' (11 Jun 2010 @ 11:50)

Nonsense Ian............. by 'Newshound' (11 Jun 2010 @ 15:14)

Re: Are you a Spartan ?- Ian by 'BrianP' (11 Jun 2010 @ 8:46)

Brian by 'itpro' (11 Jun 2010 @ 10:36)

Re: Brian by 'BrianP' (11 Jun 2010 @ 10:54)

Re: Brian by 'itpro' (11 Jun 2010 @ 11:09)

Re: Brian by 'BrianP' (11 Jun 2010 @ 11:20)

Re: Brian by 'richpudd2003' (11 Jun 2010 @ 11:04)

Re: Brian by 'itpro' (11 Jun 2010 @ 11:32)

Re: Brian by 'davidmc' (11 Jun 2010 @ 11:45)

Re: Brian by 'itpro' (11 Jun 2010 @ 11:57)

Re: Brian by 'RotaxTim' (11 Jun 2010 @ 12:07)

Tim by 'itpro' (11 Jun 2010 @ 12:27)

Re: Tim by 'RotaxTim' (11 Jun 2010 @ 12:40)

Re: Tim by 'sawf' (11 Jun 2010 @ 13:22)

Re: Tim- sawf by 'BrianP' (11 Jun 2010 @ 13:59)

Re: Tim- sawf by 'sawf' (11 Jun 2010 @ 19:19)

Re: Tim- sawf by 'BrianP' (11 Jun 2010 @ 20:09)

sawf by 'itpro' (11 Jun 2010 @ 14:37)

Re: sawf by 'RotaxTim' (11 Jun 2010 @ 14:46)

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