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Papyrus ( and Sierra) never said that 1967 was more dangerous than any other year,
they simply said that 1967 was the year before the sanctioning body made attempts
to improve safety.

Redwing009 wrote:

> >GPL and there is loads of race footage from Spa, Silverstone, Nurburgring,
> >Mosport (wet), Monza, Watkins Glen (narrow) and Mexico.
> >
> >To see all the cars and drivers blasting round with opposite lock and
> >jumping fully off the ground it made me realise that there is no
> >exaggeration in GPL -  I just wish I'd been around to see it live.
> >
> >Andy.
> >
> >
>
> I was around in 19679 i was 12 yrs old) and remember Jim Clark and the others
> very well. He was, and still is, my favorite driver. I did a little research
> today just to see how much of the hype about the dangers of 1967 were in fact
> correct.
>
> There was one fatality that year - at Monaco. The Italian Ferrari driver
> Lorenzo Bandini  died after his car crashed and flipped at the chicane. I
> remember watching a replay of the race on Wide World of Sports. The tragic
> thing was that they didn't have adequate equipment to put out the fire when it
> started.
>
> They couldn't get him before he was burned quite seriously. He died a few days
> later. However, until that day there were two years running where no drivers
> were hurt or killed in Formula1. In fact, the start of the "safe" era as game
> promoters put it, saw a rash of many fatalities.
>
>  The early 1970's were particularly bad, with a number of deaths in F1. The
> most notable was the death of Jochen Rindt at Monza. He was killed after having
> built up an insurmountable lead in the championship. In sum, 1967 wasn't nearly
> as dangerous as the years following.

