On 5/20/2022 6:20 AM, Alan wrote:
> On 2022-05-19 4:15 p.m., bra wrote:
>> https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/may/19/formula-one-carlos-sainz-worried-health-drivers-bouncing-porpoising
>>
>>
>> As I have posted before, we have entered a norm in which the old
>> pleasing notion of 'becoming one with the car" is now exposed as
>> serious drawback.
>>
>> This is quite different from latter day drivers who bounced around in
>> their seats in inefficiently-sprung cars on rough tracks.
>>
>> Today's drivers are superbly strong and fit and healthy, but, as a
>> Dakar winner once described modern rally driving, "Your body is like a
>> milkshake."  At the Austin track, a W Series driver suffered two
>> vertebral compression fractures vertebrae [and they HEARD the crack]
>> from simply running onto a sausage kerb and getting bounced.
>>
>> People who were primed to scoff at Hamilton's and Russell's complaints
>> may now listen to a Ferrari driver.
>
> I never scoffed at either of them.
>
> I cannot imagine how bad that is for the drivers. I know my 60-year-old
> body couldn't possibly stand it.

I believe it was probably Henry Manley writing fiction
for Road and Track magazine back in the 1970's was
expressing concerns of needing selective breeding
or surgical additions to handle the increasing
forces of then 'modern' F1 cars. i.e. detaching
retinas and separating kidneys...

I know I never had felt such forces until I bought
a modern light weight very high downforce car
capable of cornering in excess of 3 G's. It gets brutal.
Well, then my neurosurgeon wanted me to quit
being a multi-G Bobble head. Tough choice, sell
the exciting car, or revisit the stroke ward???
Oh well - it was wild!

On 5/20/2022 3:38 PM, a425couple wrote:
> On 5/20/2022 6:20 AM, Alan wrote:
>> On 2022-05-19 4:15 p.m., bra wrote:
>>> https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/may/19/formula-one-carlos-sainz-worried-health-drivers-bouncing-porpoising
>>>
>>>
>>> As I have posted before, we have entered a norm in which the old
>>> pleasing notion of 'becoming one with the car" is now exposed as
>>> serious drawback.
>>>
>>> This is quite different from latter day drivers who bounced around in
>>> their seats in inefficiently-sprung cars on rough tracks.
>>>
>>> Today's drivers are superbly strong and fit and healthy, but, as a
>>> Dakar winner once described modern rally driving, "Your body is like
>>> a milkshake."  At the Austin track, a W Series driver suffered two
>>> vertebral compression fractures vertebrae [and they HEARD the crack]
>>> from simply running onto a sausage kerb and getting bounced.
>>>
>>> People who were primed to scoff at Hamilton's and Russell's
>>> complaints may now listen to a Ferrari driver.
>>
>> I never scoffed at either of them.
>>
>> I cannot imagine how bad that is for the drivers. I know my
>> 60-year-old body couldn't possibly stand it.
>
> I believe it was probably Henry Manley

Henry N. Manney III

> writing fiction
> for Road and Track magazine back in the 1970's was
> expressing concerns of needing selective breeding
> or surgical additions to handle the increasing
> forces of then 'modern' F1 cars.  i.e. detaching
> retinas and separating kidneys...

I don't recall such, but if so it was probably one of the articles in
the Cyclops saga.

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On 2022-05-20 4:10 p.m., Mark Jackson wrote:
> On 5/20/2022 3:38 PM, a425couple wrote:
>> On 5/20/2022 6:20 AM, Alan wrote:
>>> On 2022-05-19 4:15 p.m., bra wrote:
>>>> https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/may/19/formula-one-carlos-sainz-worried-health-drivers-bouncing-porpoising
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> As I have posted before, we have entered a norm in which the old
>>>> pleasing notion of 'becoming one with the car" is now exposed as
>>>> serious drawback.
>>>>
>>>> This is quite different from latter day drivers who bounced around
>>>> in their seats in inefficiently-sprung cars on rough tracks.
>>>>
>>>> Today's drivers are superbly strong and fit and healthy, but, as a
>>>> Dakar winner once described modern rally driving, "Your body is like
>>>> a milkshake."  At the Austin track, a W Series driver suffered two
>>>> vertebral compression fractures vertebrae [and they HEARD the crack]
>>>> from simply running onto a sausage kerb and getting bounced.
>>>>
>>>> People who were primed to scoff at Hamilton's and Russell's
>>>> complaints may now listen to a Ferrari driver.
>>>
>>> I never scoffed at either of them.
>>>
>>> I cannot imagine how bad that is for the drivers. I know my
>>> 60-year-old body couldn't possibly stand it.
>>
>> I believe it was probably Henry Manley
>
> Henry N. Manney III
>
>> writing fiction
>> for Road and Track magazine back in the 1970's was
>> expressing concerns of needing selective breeding
>> or surgical additions to handle the increasing
>> forces of then 'modern' F1 cars.  i.e. detaching
>> retinas and separating kidneys...
>
> I don't recall such, but if so it was probably one of the articles in
> the Cyclops saga.
>

I have a vague recollection of that article as well...