Hannah Barnes
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509 appearances
22 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2011
last heard Oct 2013
Hannah Barnes’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Daniel Bruhl playing Formula One great Niki Lauda there.
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And Niki Lauda was, of course, horribly injured at the Nürburgring in 1976.
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So the sport was dangerous.
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Unbelievably, seatbelts weren't even mandatory until 1972.
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Still, a 20% chance of death every time you get into a car?
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That really bothered me.
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So much so that I went to the experts.
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First, Formula One superfan and author of all the races and analysing Formula One, Roger Smith.
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Yeah, and I even managed to reach Nicky Louder himself.
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Well, I got a message to his team, yeah, and they replied.
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He says it was a rhetorical statement rather than a precise statistical calculation.
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Yeah, I know, Tim.
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But I still wanted to know what the actual numbers were.
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Yep, and I got on to our good friend at the Open University, Professor of Applied Statistics, Kevin McConway.
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And the results of his work are quite shocking.
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If we take the decade leading up to the year the film is set in, 1976, drivers had a third of a percent chance of dying each time they competed in a Grand Prix.
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which includes any practice and qualifying sessions.
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Now, that's a lot less than 20% any time you get into a car.
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But across a Formula One season, the chance of death rises to 4.4%.
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And if a driver raced for five years in every race, his chance of death did indeed approach 20%.
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