Two fatalities at the same track in the same corner are two too many. No one will ever know. Even if swim out there I probably couldn't rescue him. As long as people swim occasionally some are going to drown. You have to at least try.
Inaction is inexcusable.
In the wake of Kenny Irwin's passing it is human nature to want to say he was one of the greatest racers ever and given a couple more years he'd have been a championship contender. Maybe that's so. We'll never know. But what Irwin was a thirty year old man who won Rookie of the Year honors in both the Truck and Cup series. And he was a young man who had reached the top echelon of the sport that many attempt to enter, but only a chosen few ever attain.