venividivici wrote:
I am part of the tracking fraternity that frequent Sepang for track days and knew the driver.

The accident is a tragedy.

but we cannot allow our relationship or friendship with the driver to cloud our judgement. We have to learn from this incident and improve the safety of such events for returning drivers.

What we know is
-that a high performance car crashed
-driven by an individual who just won an event.
-performance tyre compound with minimal rain thread on a damp road
-From impact and damage on car, the car was travelling in excess of 160km.

That type of driving should have been limited to the track - No excuses.

He should have left the racing attitude as soon as he left the track and drove home with a mindset of safety. He must have been high strung after winning the event and was emulating his winning drive on the way home.

Every few years a trackie will die coming home from a track day on the highway. Then the next safety briefing will contain a mention of the accident for the next few months and the memory of the incident will fade away.

The accident was preventable with the correct mindset. The Porsche has a very rigid chassis. At lower speeds the car would have saved both the driver and the passenger.

The true tragedy was the passenger who died riding shotgun. Did he consent to the speeds they were travelling at or was he an unwilling passenger. Is his family as elite as the driver? Does his family now has a breadwinner? How is his children? How are they taking it?

God speed to the driver but more important to the surviving members of their families.

The accident was regrettable but definitely preventable and the innocent death unnecessary.

:-(
Kudos to your well worded statement!
He said "dai sei" gently,.