Morning Qualifying – All The Appropriate Safety Measures Have Been Taken! edition
Let’s take a moment to practice our risk management skills with an exercise in risk identification. No seat belts…..check. No crash helmet…..check. Skinny tires…..check. Drum brakes……check. No self-sealing fuel tanks…..check. Safety trees……check. As a risk management professional, I declare this photo safe for viewing. Carry on, Mr Chiron.
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Cloth cap, gaggles and coveralls? Just a wee bit excessive. Let's just hope he was wearing loafers, instead of those safety nanny lace ups.
Coveralls? Way too much protection. Assless chaps.
When you see a crash coming on, bailing out at the last second is a lot easier if you don't have all of the restrictive gear holding you back. An ejection seat may have been a useful addition.
That approach worked for Masten Gregory.
Seat, near as on top of the car…check!
"No seat belts…..check. No crash helmet…..check. Skinny tires…..check. Drum brakes……check. No self-sealing fuel tanks…..check. Safety trees……check."
As long as you raise no other points of comparison whatsoever, that's me driving to work in my Plymouth.
[Please don't raise any other points of comparison. I can dream, can't I?]
It reminds me of a slightly faster grown-up version of home-built go-carts kids had before everything went brightly colored plastic.
Scars create character. Fear of dying made for better drivers. And wooden legs made you the coolest guy in the bar.
When tires were skinny and the drivers were fat.
I think we can cut Louis a break; Chiron was 52 yrs old in 1951!