[Jeff Higgins]

It was kind of disconcerting to be standing in the trees watching these cars go by at speed. No protection from the trees for the competitors. I kept thinking "Jimmy Clark". Or "Joey Dunlop". We felt entirely safe watching from mere feet away, but only because there were trees to hide behind...

I really don't know what they can do, though. With the transient nature of the sport, running where they can on no established circuits, there is no way to build in the kind of safety we see today on circuit racing. Maybe something along the lines of what Zeke suggests, with airbags incorporated into the cars in a way that circuit racing really doesn't require. Even if it compromises their performance a bit.

I dunno. Brave men and women. Or maybe, as Sir Jackie Stewart suggested, merely "lacking in imagination"...