Wasn't trying to come to a conclusion, my careful thought brought up the question, and I think it's valid, if you are man enough to have a family,you need to step up for the duration, and be there for them. That is what is important, and all the racecars in the world won't change that. Doesn't denegrate race cars in any way, just a question.
So what you are saying is that if a man, (only if he is "man enough") has a family that he should avoid any risk to "be there for them". I guess that means once you have the family you all move into a padded, armored box and avoid going anywhere and doing anything for the rest of your life. I'm not advocating parachute-less sky diving here, but there are some things we do every day that have much more risk than driving a rail in a straight line for a quarter mile. Driving on the freeways these days for example. Sorry, if life causes you so much worry and I appreciate your desire for "safety", but I'll continue to live and enjoy my life for the days that I'm here and you can try and find your safe haven in whatever dream world you live in.
Read what I said, nothing about boxes, nothing about daily safety, it's just a consideration one may have about getting into what seems to be a pretty sketchy situation once you have resonsibilities as a parent. If that is not an important issue to you that's fine.
Drag racing is hazardous...people get killed riding motorcycles on the street...hell, people get killed riding bicycles on the street...Where would you draw the line? At the time that car was built it was "state of the art", many people were killed in FEDs during the same time span and even with all of the current N(o)H(ot)R(ods)A(llowed) safety rules there are still fatalities on occasion. We can "live in a bubble" or we can live within "calculated risk" and enjoy our time here. I'm not advocating Sky Diving...(never could see any point in jumping out of an airplane unless a wing came off or it was on fire), but I have also lost friends to some very freak accidents that no one could have predicted, so I guess you might say I have a fatalistic outlook. I am a parent of a 41 year old son and have an 11 year old granddaughter and look forward to watching them grow as long as I can...I have also drag raced cars and motorcycles, rebuilt and flown my own vintage aircraft and had the at***ude adjustment of open heart surgery to repair a blown out mitral valve. I'm still here, building and planning on racing an HA/GR rail and planning on enjoying my meagerly financed "social security/medicare years" for many years into the future. Along with our "responsibilities" as parents, I feel that we have "responsibilities" as individuals to ourselves and those that we love to live our lives to our given potential. My wife and I have been married since the week before I got drafted in 1967, I served in Viet Nam and have never believed in "macho posing". My life's goal has always been to keep my **** in one piece and hang around to see what happens next and so far I have succeeded at that goal. All that said, I'd still get in that car and run the quarter mile. End of rant...Have a nice day in Your "safe world".
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