Almost 40 years ago, when I occupied the editorial chair of monthly motorcycle magazine Bike, my assistant editor Roland Brown wrote an impressive piece of hard-core journalism entitled “Blood on the tracks”, exposing lax and often downright callous attitudes to race track safety. An extremely competent racer in his own right, Brown’s motivation for this diatribe was personal involvement in the death of a fellow competitor, who had crashed into steel Armco fencing gesturally protected by a few straw bales and been thrown back onto the racing line…
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