Racecar Engineering

Sausage and mash

Safety came into sharp focus once again in July with a series of high profile accidents that highlighted the incredible advances that have been made in racecar and track safety, but also the hideous and potentially lethal sausage kerbs that have once again put drivers’ and marshals’ lives in danger.

As driver Harry Tincknell pointed out, the sausage kerbs are there for sporting reasons, but they need to be looked at on the grounds of safety. In that respect I don’t think that they have a place

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