I would never make it in time to participate in the taping of the pre-race show. However, not so. Welcome to America. Speedvision had landed exclusive rights to cover Formula 1 throughout 2001. The Formula 1 circus packed their bags and departed Melbourne in understandably somber mood.
Nothing can ever change that.
Grieving is a private affair, and while all of us can sympathize with such an awful, dreadful loss, I m sure the man s family would prefer to be left alone, left with their own thoughts, their own memories. At the end of the day I think we have little choice but to accept the inevitable, that motor racing has always been an extremely dangerous sport and that it will always continue that way, too. The sport concerns speed and Speed kills. It makes no difference if that speeding is done by crazed sales reps on busy Interstates, or by the world s most professional racing drivers on Grand Prix circuits. When an accident occurs, such as the one between the Jacques Villeneuve s BAR and the Ralf Schumacher s Williams in Melbourne, the drivers become but hapless passengers.