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Race Safety - Was "How young is too young?"
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<blockquote data-quote="patooyee" data-source="post: 488766" data-attributes="member: 483"><p><strong>Re: How young is too young?</strong></p><p></p><p>For this sport to "grow" you have to have people there that aren't a part of it. How are they to know that a buggy is capable of jumping 20 feet into the air and landing in the crowd? Even guys who are into wheeling that I bring to these events for the first time are completely taken by surprise by how crazy it can get. Someone just coming to watch that knew nothing would never have an idea of where to self-designate a safe-zone. That's where it becomes SRRS's responsibility IMHO. Part of that is establishing and enforcing reasonable safe zones and not allowing obviously high-risk drivers to drive.</p><p></p><p>What is some full-blown mentally retarded person wanted to run? Maybe some parent has a <strong><u>40-year-old</u> </strong>down-syndrome child who has dreamed of driving an 800hp race buggy up Cable hill his entire life, but he's never even driven a car on the road? Is that cool, too? Crowd's fault for not staying behind the blue tape?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="patooyee, post: 488766, member: 483"] [b]Re: How young is too young?[/b] For this sport to "grow" you have to have people there that aren't a part of it. How are they to know that a buggy is capable of jumping 20 feet into the air and landing in the crowd? Even guys who are into wheeling that I bring to these events for the first time are completely taken by surprise by how crazy it can get. Someone just coming to watch that knew nothing would never have an idea of where to self-designate a safe-zone. That's where it becomes SRRS's responsibility IMHO. Part of that is establishing and enforcing reasonable safe zones and not allowing obviously high-risk drivers to drive. What is some full-blown mentally retarded person wanted to run? Maybe some parent has a [b][u]40-year-old[/u] [/b]down-syndrome child who has dreamed of driving an 800hp race buggy up Cable hill his entire life, but he's never even driven a car on the road? Is that cool, too? Crowd's fault for not staying behind the blue tape? [/QUOTE]
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