Nataliya’s Reviews > Cars at Speed: Classic Stories from Grand Prix's Golden Age > Status Update

More car racing books? You're on a roll! :)

Hehe, hopefully I won’t roll too far. May crash 😆
This is a very i retesting book, actually. Pretty scary how terrifying and life threatening racing used to be.

Nataliya wrote: "Pretty scary how terrifying and life threatening racing used to be."

I can imagine, with how safety measures (or rather lack of) must've been before.

Just read a chapter where an accident in the 50s left a driver and 83 spectators dead 😳

Nataliya wrote: "Just read a chapter where an accident in the 50s left a driver and 83 spectators dead 😳"

My goodness! That's horrific. At least now spectators are safe if racers crash (I hope).

There’s also quite a bit of recklessness of the spectators overall, being right next to speeding cars 🤷‍♀️
Another horrific string of deaths happened in the 1950s Argentina where there was amass riot, crowds decided to basically hang around on the race track and the race went on because the dictator needed it to.

Nataliya wrote: "There’s also quite a bit of recklessness of the spectators overall, being right next to speeding cars 🤷‍♀️"

They still do in some parts of the world, I've seen it with my own eyes. And though not formal & sanctioned races, there's also clandestine racing that use less-busy highways for impromptu races (they coordinate and organise them over social media).

In the city next to me, police catch kids organising these races at night from time to time. They never learn their lesson, I think fines on the parents and gaol time for the kids isn't working. Maybe confiscate their cars? If Daddy Richie Rich loses his sports car because his dumb boy went racing without permission, then they might be more willing to step in...

Yeah. You’d think people will realize that if a very fast out-of-control car hits your soft human bits at insane miles per hour, your soft human bits would be thinly spread all over the roads. Still people think they are invincible 🤦‍♀️

Nataliya wrote: "Yeah. You’d think people will realize that if a very fast out-of-control car hits your soft human bits at insane miles per hour, your soft human bits would be thinly spread all over the roads."

Soft human bits. 🤣 I like how physicians talk.

Marquise wrote: "Soft human bits. 🤣 I like how physicians talk."

After some time spent in the ER during training, I’ve learned that in human vs a speeding chunk of metal close encounter humans tend to not fare very well 🤷‍♀️

Now, if we have sturdy robot bodies in the future, maybe I’ll brave watching a race from the sidelines….

Nataliya wrote: "After some time spent in the ER during training, I’ve learned that in human vs a speeding chunk of metal close encounter humans ten..."

You're not a fan of fast cars, I take it? :)

Marquise wrote: "Nataliya wrote: "After some time spent in the ER during training, I’ve learned that in human vs a speeding chunk of metal close encounter humans ten..."

You're not a fan of fast cars, I take it? :)"

At a very safe distance and with safety I am totally fine with them.
When people act idiotic near speeding cars — not so much. Cars have no brains; people shouldn’t acr like they don’t either.

Nataliya wrote: " Cars have no brains; people shouldn’t acr like they don’t either."

You're never going to be impressed by a chap on a fast car, then. It makes all the more entertaining that you read F1 and racing books. :)

I'll look forward to your review!

Marquise wrote: "Nataliya wrote: " Cars have no brains; people shouldn’t acr like they don’t either."

You're never going to be impressed by a chap on a fast car, then. It makes all the more entertaining that you r..."

Hehe, I do find it ridiculous when people seem to define themselves by the car they drive. Or when people on the highway who drive big cars try to bully people in tiny cars — it’s like dude, your car really has nothing to do with your self-worth. (As a person who basically drives a toy car I get to run into assholes in giant SUVs all the time who seem to be offended by my car’s mere presence on the road next to their oversized equivalents of stuffing a sock down their pants).

This book will be fun to review. I love it!

Nataliya wrote: "Hehe, I do find it ridiculous when people seem to define themselves by the car they drive."

You're talking to someone who had to fight herself to suppress a less-than-polite chortle the first time a potential date showed up on a car meant to impress me but had the opposite effect. 🤣

their oversized equivalents of stuffing a sock down their pants).

Oh, oh, oh! You're going to LOVE this lil' scientific thingie that got published recently... (Warning: don't drink/eat & read) 😉

https : // www . nzherald . co . nz/lifestyle/scientists-prove-link-between-perceived-penis-size-and-sports-cars/FGZTKJM53BF2VGVSLUO2IULQUA/

Oh, that’s awesome! What everyone’s been joking about now is scientific fact 😂

Nataliya wrote: "Oh, that’s awesome! What everyone’s been joking about now is scientific fact 😂"

Ha, yeah! More ammo to bug the car obsessives we might know. 🤣