Look up what Jackie Stewart pretty much singlehandedly did for racing safety sometime. The man's a hero even if he does talk funny.

I like the story about how Jackie Stewart didn't like the looks of the safety at some american track back in the day during Can-Am. He complained several times about trees in runouts, when nothing was done, he and his boys went out and cut them down and hauled them off with a tractor themselves, the morning of the race!