As Formula One fans prepare for the final weekend of the racing season - with Lewis Hamilton already confirmed as world champion - the drivers will be sat in the safest cars to ever be used in the sport.
But
it wasn't too long ago that stepping into a Formula One car was an act
either of extraordinary bravery or total recklessness.
In
the mid-twentieth century, an average of two drivers died each season
while even spectators were regularly at risk from flying debris.
Between 1952 and 1970, a staggering 32 drivers died during Grand Prix races, many in horrific circumstances.
In
one fateful weekend in 1994, Brazilian driver Ayrton Senna and
Austrian Roland Ratzenberger both died in devastating crashes in Italy.
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