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Stewart warns that motorsport is still risky and dangerous

Formula 1's safety pioneer Sir Jackie Stewart has warned drivers that the sport is still dangerous and warns that complacency may be creeping in to the issue of safety. Kimi Raikkonen headed into the Austrian grand prix arguing that more danger would spice up the sport, only to narrowly avoid serious injury when Fernando Alonso's McLaren sliced across his open cockpit at the start of the race. In fact, F1 legend Sir Jackie Stewart thinks that because there have been no deaths since Ayrton Senna in 1994, drivers are today taking too many risks. 'Yes,' the triple world champion told Der Tagesspiegel. 'The accident Max Verstappen had in Monaco could have been fatal. And at the end of May at...
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