Alex Jacques

So, yeah, it is a mentality game as well as outright speed.

And it's another fascinating aspect of Formula One.

Yeah, that was the darkest day for a very long time.

It was a horrific thing to be part of because...

Formula 1 safety and therefore Formula 2, Formula 3, just generally the FIA have done amazing work in the last 30 years to just improve safety all the time, to not wait for a big incident to try and change things, but to innovate when it comes to safety.

And for that era to then present us with a horrendous crash live on TV,

You knew it was incredibly serious immediately.

And this incredibly intelligent, kind, smart guy was lost at the age of 20.

And it was a very, very cruel thing to witness happening to his family.

And it was a very, very brutal reminder that this thing that we all love and that drivers try for from the age of five years of age in a go-kart

I think everyone had put the danger to the limit of their peripheral vision.

Yeah, it was a very, very dark weekend, and a stark reminder of the fact that this is a sport for the brave.

It will forever be risky.

The confidence that it is in a better place than it has ever been is because the safety...

aspect of it has been deliberate, it has been methodical, and there have been some brilliant minds working on it.

It's a safety push that started with the great Sir Jackie Stewart, when it was downright ridiculous.

They could hit trees.

There weren't barriers.

And then Sid Watkins, who was the Formula One doctor for a long time, who implemented so many safety changes when we lost the great Ayrton Senna.

And the loss of Senna