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Ecclestone: Nobody is going to get killed

Formula 1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone, no stranger to controversial comments, has suggested building walls on racetrack corners to add a greater sense of danger. The remarks are unlikely to sit well with, or be treated seriously by, drivers and the governing FIA, who have worked for decades to improve safety in a sport whose past is littered with fatalities. “In [the old] days — and it can’t happen again — people would come to a race and think somebody could get killed,” Ecclestone told The Times. “[They would think,] ‘He’s a bloody lunatic. He’s going to get it.’ Today they know they come to a race and nobody is going to get killed — which is good. “But if somebody...
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