Despite the recent deaths of IndyCar driver Dan Wheldon and MotoGP rider Marco Simoncelli on te tracks, Michael Schumacher has said that motorsport safety has been greatly improved in recent years and that these kind of tragedies are more a product of fate than anything else.
“If something has to happen, that is something I would call fate, and fate is something we are all faced with,” Schumacher said. According to the Formula One champion, total safety in this kind of sport is impossible and that the nature and goal of the drivers is to push their cars to limit rather than think of the risks involved.
Wheldon, a British national, died after colliding with the catchfence and catching on fire on the track during a 15 car accident in Las Vegas while Italian Simoncelli died when he lost control of his bike and then his helmet and crashed into two other drivers in Sepang.
source: skysports