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i just watched the video out of curiosity. quite shocked by it. looks like that track layout is very poorly designed.
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J da Silva
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Its a fucking bit of stupidity to design a course where after the fastest and most dangerous corner their is a metal post in the way. Did Doyle design the course or something?
Its not the most dangerous corner tho - before the event a number of people expressed conserns about the track but the corner he crashed at was not one of the ones highlighted as the major conserns.
To be fair it was the first time in 30 years that someone has come out the track.
I think the biggest problem hes been with it being that bit faster than any other track having such limited access before the event did make it hard for people to prepare for the event.
Unfortunately he did not steer his way down the course very well and with it being a dangerous sport he paid with this life. The same could happen at a WRC even where someone comes flying off the track and then gets hit in the head by a tree through the screen. Its a dangerous sport where people do know the risk.
It's not the most dangerous corner? That's a fucking right statement considering the bloke just lost his life on it! Jesus Christ, CorsaSport never fails to produce stupid comments even ten years into my membership. 
As regards safety issues with this sport, I'm sure a plexiglass tube would stop lugers from being tossed out of the track.
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ed
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How does that make it the most dangerous corner though?
But as with most alpine sports, luge us very very dangerous. Just take downhill skiing for example.
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Cavey
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Most of those sports involve wearing very little and going downhill extremely quickly, always going to be danger involved, I guess the adrenaline is the main reason people do it. Think they said 88 mph on the video.
Skeleton Luge is even more crazy, going down headfirst.
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Paul_J
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I've always thought it was a fairly dangerous sport ...
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J da Silva
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How does that make it the most dangerous corner though?
But as with most alpine sports, luge us very very dangerous. Just take downhill skiing for example.
It maybe isn't the 'most' dangerous as I haven't researched the death count on that track yet, a man has died, we must not forget this nor say things along the lines of " It wasn't the most dangerous corner so it doesn't matter that he's died on it ".
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ed
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I wasn't going down that avenue, you just ranted so the comment needed to be made. I don't think anyone has died in luge in the last 18 to 20 years either.
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J da Silva
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I didn't rant, I typed my thoughts in a 'laughing in discbelieve sort of way' I jut couldn't believe someone could make out a corner isn't dangerous when 24 hours earlier a bloke died on it. I found it hilarious more than making me mad tbh, it is the internet afterall. 
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J da Silva
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Also if there hasn't been any deaths in luge in the last 18-20 years, then they probably haven't had any on this track, therefore this one being the first, so now this corner is the most dangerous until another 2 people die on another corner of the same track.
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saj_123
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Just watched the accident on Youtube and its truely horrific. RIP.
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Cosmo
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Its a dangerous sport as in people get hurt, but the stats show few people die from it yearly.
Fact is he crashed on what was a known dangerous corner (fastest part of the course at 90mph) and there were metal poles right at the side that had no preventatives in front of them.
Now F1 is a massively dangerous sport, but look at the huge amount of safety features involves (run off areas and the likes) - I see none of it here.
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Cosmo
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Shortened the track by 200m now, its on tonight at some point live on BBC2.
Dont fucken shorten it, danger is part of the game, just make it safe so the danger isnt a fucking metal pole.
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Cosmo
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Bit more info on it...even though its 200m less, its only going to take off about 10kmph speed, which sounds pointless to me when hitting a metal bar.
Also put up big boardings after the killer corner so they cant hit the bars.
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Rob_Quads
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Originally posted by J da Silva
It's not the most dangerous corner? That's a fucking right statement considering the bloke just lost his life on it! Jesus Christ, CorsaSport never fails to produce stupid comments even ten years into my membership.
Fact is before the event it was not the corner everyone was worried about. Turn 13 "50:50" was the one that everyone said was the one which would cause most of the problems.
Unfortuntely the guy didn't take the corner right ,made a mistake and paid the ultimate price, that doesn't make the corner it self the most dangerous tho.
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Matt H
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Apparently the inquest has found that he failed to kiss his lucky egg 
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am4nf
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R.I.P
watched the first 24 last night and a few of them hit the woodwork
apparently the only brit competing broke his hip on that track
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Cavey
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Dislocated his hip. He's recovered enough to be racing iirc
[Edited on 14-02-2010 by Cavey]
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am4nf
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No broke his hip, im talking a previous olympics
[Edited on 14-02-2010 by am4nf]
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richard_cooper
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wow, that is bad. Why is there exposed metal posts next to the track. Thats just asking from trouble
[Edited on 14-02-2010 by richard_cooper]
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Originally posted by J da Silva
As regards safety issues with this sport, I'm sure a plexiglass tube would stop lugers from being tossed out of the track.
You can't please all the people all the time, they then end up in a sealed tube along with a sleigh doing 90 MPH!?!
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J da Silva
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Not completely sealed, maybe just have a sheet of plexiglass on the corners where they could get thrown off? I'd sooner hit some safety barrier at 90mph than a concrete/metal post at 90mph, I don't even have to think about this.
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Twiggy
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Clearly going to fast, they should put a Gatso on that corner...
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whitter45
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http://lewislab.com/upload/id_986234.html
So bad
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