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3 deaths in the last 30 years. It's a race that tops out at 250mph whereas these guys only got to around 100mph less. That's quite a lot less. I get your point,

• Xylakant 13y ago
  They don't compare at all. There's a couple of reasons that races on dedicated tracks are significantly safer than road races, chief among them: * Everyone on the track is doing a race. No mother with a crying child on the back seat having a momentary lack of attention, getting in your way. * Everybody is roughly on the same speed scale. No slow lorry around the corner or behind the slope, doing a third or a quarter of your speed. * No bikes or pedestrians. * The track is known to be free of obstacles. If an accident occurs or any obstacle ends up on the track, people with huge flags jump out and signal danger. * The track is surrounded by safety zones designed to stop you moderately gently, especially in danger spots. So if you loose control, there's first green, then stone-beds, then hay and last a hard barrier. This allows even motorcyclists on the track to have a significant chance of survival. It's not the fall that kills you, it's the high speed impact on an immobile object. So when you race, be responsible to you and others. Stay on the track.