marcush. wrote:
They also showed the Winning Hathorn drinking champagne in joy after the race and an old man called Stirling Moss stating he could not understand why Mercedes packed up and left the race in the night....Sometimes one has to shake his head how things have changed since then .....the man really said it would not bring back the lives of the people who were killed ór injured in the accident ,so why stop after a few hours ...they would have won this...
It was a different time and people had different attitudes to risk and death. You really can't look at it with 2012 eyes - you have to look at it through the eyes of people living in 1955. Prticularly the eyes of a racing driver in 1955 - they saw friends/competitors killed every few weeks, don't forget, and some would have survived the recent worldwide conflicts where death and injury were constant companions. We can't hope to understand that. Hell, I look back at myself as a 20 year old and think - could I have flown an aircraft, with the lives of several men in my hands, over enemy territory as a 20 year old? I very much doubt it, but that was the reality for many only 10 years before this terrible accident occurred. Different times. Different attitudes.
In some way I can understand the attitude that they're dead and nothing will change it. And in another way I can see how this is hurtful to those who lost loved ones. But the reality is that nothing could change the result - and the idea that everyone should slink away from the circuit afterwards doesn't exactly honour the dead in anyway. I've never understood the idea of events being cancelled "in honour of X who died". If the person was a follower/fan of that event, it would be much more of an honour to them to hold it in their memory.
If you are more fortunate than others, build a larger table not a taller fence.
