Regarding your implication that the drivers no longer have fear is abit far fetched imho because anybody in their right mind knows that racing is dangerous. Safety rules cannot aways protect a driver from serious injury or even death.
We will have to agree to disagree on this one. I feel it is human nature to become accustomed to feeling safe without other stimulus telling you that it isn't. Their brains may tell them that racing isn't safe but they won't have that gut feeling that what they are doing is unsafe. No driver has to worry about dying if they overcook a corner nowadays, so they aren't running the "ragged edge"... Heck they don't even have to worry about being out of the GP. They have a huge runoff area to pull a 180 and get back on track.
I don't think going back to the way things were or even imposing danger by removing safety features is the way to go - they were all hard fought improvements and made sense. I am just commenting on the fact that it does make for a different sort of sport. I would at least like to make it punishing to their race if they overdo a corner and land in a gravel trap, not a runway sized paved area.
One last comment. In the rainy race last year we saw the difference in the mindset of nowadays instead of the olden days. Nobody is will to take any chances nowadays. This happens in everyday life as well as in motorsport so I am not picking on them, but everything needs to be safe to the ultimate degree nowadays. Also, I know this may be taken as callous, but I would like to see cars that are capable of being driven past the limit and making the drivers decide where that limit is. I may be wrong, but I heard one of the commentators last year or the year before (I think it was DC) saying that doing something in one of the old turbo cars was terrifying, and in today's cars there was no fear to do the same thing (maybe it was running full throttle through Eau Rouge?).
I will stop here before I get on my rant about the human race not willing to take risks anymore. Ooops, too late.
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