It's very hard to get killed in F1 these days. Massa escaped a freak flying bolt , Jules Bianchi spent 9 months in a coma ,carcinogen wrote:It's just a commercial break that lasts two hours with the tantalising prospect of a death.
but no on-track deaths since Senna in 94 in a good record . The 60s and 70s were truly horrific and drivers had to
a unique breed to survive, and to manually do the gear changes and other controls took immense skill and stamina.
They were worth ten of todays drivers.