Fast Cars

Today, after a horrific car accident on the race track at Mt Panorama (the accident I think was yesterday), racing car driver Mark Porter died. I haven’t seen footage of the accident (which is probably a good thing) but the way the article I read described it is still locked vividly in my mind. He lost control of his car coming around a tight corner, slid and stalled, and wound up sideways across the track, driver’s side facing the oncoming cars who were approaching at over 180 KM per hour but could not see him there around the bend. There he sat helpless; helpless too the drivers who crashed into him, powerless to stop their cars before impact.