In a message dated 1/26/02 2:25:22 PM, mpetry@bainbridgeisland.net writes:
<< To your list of Jim Clark and Alan Stacey I'd add... Clay Regazzoni, whose
took an escape road and hit a parked car when the titanium brake pedal of
his Williams F1 collapsed at the Long Beach GP. He was crippled for life,
of course. >>
In these days of carbon fiber tubs and crash tested racing cars it's easy to forget that in he 60s a half dozen drivers a year died in crashes, some in spectacular fashion like poor Baghetti at Monaco and others in something as mundane as a plane crash like Graham Hill and Tony Brise. Or von Trips at Monza or Castolotti testing at Modena or-well, you get the idea. Today's cars are a world away from that time. Phil Brown