The way Formula One cars were designed at the time was in such a way that the drivers sat so far forward in the cockpit that their legs and feet were way in front of the front axle, leaving those human body parts dangerously exposed.
A forma dos coches de Fórmula Un deseñáronse no seu momento de tal xeito que os pilotos sentábanse tan adiante na cabina que as súas pernas e pés estaban moi por diante do eixe dianteiro, deixando esas partes do corpo humano perigosamente expostas.