Lydia on welfare

“You can’t remove risk from life, let alone from a sport like racing, but this can often be a difficult message to communicate to those who have no experience of it, or no real interest beyond a woolly antipathy. Like most fans, I accept that the exhilaration of watching these elite-performance athletes compete, having been bred, nurtured and trained for the purpose and enriching the lives of those humans with whom they come into contact, is worth the comparatively rare instances of life-ending injury and fatality.