Chuck Bryant

So his death was quite ironic.

I say hats off to the Mercedes team, because even though the race continued, they withdrew.

And they waited until the emergency crews had done their thing and cleared out.

And they packed up and they withdrew from the race at 1 a.m.

And they stopped racing all the way until the 1980s because of that incident.

Yeah.

I mean, it really shook up the industry, obviously, and the sport.

There were official inquiries, obviously.

Everyone was absolved.

No one, like, had to take the fall or anything like that.

They said, you know, we didn't have the right safety measures.

We didn't have the right layout.

I didn't see if there was any kind of, like, financial compensation to victims or anything like that.

I didn't either.

It may have been at a time where that kind of thing just didn't routinely happen like it would today.

But there was obviously a huge public outcry, and that track obviously went under all kinds of changes, including more safety for the spectators, more barriers put in place, and then a much safer pit situation.

Like they fully moved the pit road and made it much safer to get into.

Yeah, they moved it like a quarter mile back from the track rather than right up on the track, which I can't believe they ever did that in the first place, you know, even in retrospect.

Well, way to go, Chuck.

This is a car one and we don't normally do car stuff.