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Wild watching the SailGP crash between NZ and France, and the follow-up that is focused on the number of boats & racing format rather than the physical safety of the machines. Coutts suggesting that sailors "know the risk" and it's like F1.

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Hamish

@polemic.nz

16 Feb

Well F1 got safe by getting incredibly serious about building survival cells, along with a range of other devices. If you want to be like F1, figure how to make crashes survivable! </rant>

Hamish

@polemic.nz

16 Feb

Coutts minimizing double compound leg fractures with "nobody was really seriously injured" and they should "perhaps respond in a better way in future" but "there is an element of danger and the athletes know it" is just.. red flags all over the place.