Back in the 1960's and 1970's F1 was pure carnage. Things have gotten a lot better. Here is a summary of improvements: https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/149628

Back in the 1960's and 1970's F1 was pure carnage. Things have gotten a lot better. Here is a summary of improvements: https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/149628/history-of-safety-devices-in-formula-1 https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/149628/history-of-safety-d... Here is a quite scary crash that Fernando Alonso walked away from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x45fLUTHCuk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x45fLUTHCuk The basic idea is the car is designed to be completely destroyed except for the survival cell for the driver.