So my earlier thread / too many injuries enough now - really bad news and it feels they delayed it…cynical

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I remember reading interviews with other drivers of the 1968 French Grand Prix when Honda tested a magnesium chassis on the track and it caught fire. They could smell the driver roasting as they drove by. Became the catalyst for the movement towards driver safety. John Surtees had refused to drive it, called it a death trap.
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Maybe some graphic deaths with redbull logos plastered all over the news are what is required to inject some common sense

Ah Jo Schlesser - a sorry story from start to finish. His big chance and in a fatally-flawed underdeveloped car. Air cooled engine.

This is the most detailed diagnosis of the accident:

Meanwhile, at the back of the field, Jo Schlesser struggled with the No. 18 Honda V8 RA302; once Elford got by in his Cooper, Schlesser was all alone trailing the field as the rain continued. On lap 3, Schlesser's engine was heard to be misfiring. it has been speculated that rain may have gotten into the electrics or the exposed induction and cooling intakes for the air-cooled engine, causing the engine to misfire and cut out. This led to Schlesser losing control of the RA302 during lap three of the race at the Six Freres curve, before the run down to the Nouveau Monde hairpin.

The car went sideways when the power cut off, then climbed an embankment and somersaulted, landing upside down, exploding in a blaze of fire with tanks full of fuel on board, since it was so early in the race. The highly flammable magnesium alloy, of which much of the car was made, led to a huge fireball in which Schlesser, trapped in the car, was killed; the fire was so fierce that the car could not be approached for 15 minutes and by then it was too late.

from

https://www.nsxprime.com/threads/hondas-formula-1-racing-history-in-autosport-com.60332/