Hannah Barnes

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More or Less · Formula 1 racing risk · 23 Sep 2013 podcast

And if a driver raced for five years in every race, his chance of death did indeed approach 20%.

To put that into context, each race, the risk of dying was equivalent to travelling 1.5 million miles by car, or 500 skydives.

Yeah, he did say that, or variations on that theme, some of which are extremely implausible.

For instance, that the chance of dying was two-thirds per race.

I asked Kevin McConway about the more sensible claim, and although Sir Jackie was racing slightly earlier than Nicky Louder, the chances of death were very similar, just fractionally higher.

Now, I think it's probably fair to say that Sir Jackie Stewart was badly affected by the death of so many of his friends.

There was a particularly awful period in 1968, for example, where four drivers died in the space of just three months, three of those in non-Formula 1 cars.

That included Stewart's great friend, Jim Clark, who died in a Formula 2 car.

Now, the statistical wizard Kevin McConway also tried to calculate these odds, though.

We couldn't give him a complete set of data, but he reckons that if you were a Formula One driver competing for six years at the height of the Jackie Stewart era, you had a 50-50 chance of dying, not necessarily in a Formula One car.

So Jackie wasn't far off.

It was, and thankfully that period is behind us, and there hasn't been a death of a Formula One driver since Ayrton Senna in 1994, although some race marshals have been killed.

More or Less · Do free school meals work? · 20 Sep 2013 podcast

Well, I tried, Tim. voice-verified

I really did. voice-verified

I took on board everything you've said about work-life balance and I went to the cinema. voice-verified

I fancied that new high-octane film, Rush. voice-verified

featuring the incredibly handsome, I mean talented, Chris Hemsworth as British Formula One driver James Hunt and Daniel Bruhl as his Austrian rival Niki Lauda. voice-verified

And it's set during the 1976 season and features plenty of this. voice-verified

And dramatic lines like this. voice-verified

But also some questionable statistical claims. voice-verified

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