F1 - Indycar safety.

[Danthus]

There hasn't been a death in F1 since Senna, 17 years ago, IndyCar has had 10 fatalities in past 12 years I think someone mentioned in the Dan Wheldon thread.

Is this simply an issue of how much safer an F1 car is or is it a combination of factors in IndyCar, the number of cars and the walls etc which makes it more dangerous?

 

[Danthus]

Are the cockpits more exposed than in F1, look at Webber and his crash in Valencia.

 

[Danthus]

I would argue an indycar is at least as strong as an F1 car, I suggest even stronger. That crash would have destroyed an F1 car too, the crash that Kubica had would have been different if he'd hit head first into the fence. It's the nature of the impact and the speeds that are different, this is why Indycar is so dangerous compared to F1, their tracks.

Tony Jardine on Sky said the opposite was true in terms of of how safe an F1 chassis was compared to the IndyCar chassis.