Well done @ESPNMcGee and ESPN on Intimidator. Well crafted telling of a story that needed to be told.

In my lifetime Senna and Earnhardt's deaths were seismic moments in auto racing. I assume Jim Clark's death was similar I'm 1968.

As the drivers explained in today's E60, a driver's death can be rationalized away by other drivers. Oh that won't happen to me. NASCAR had had multiple deaths in the year before Earnhardt's death. But when the universally acknowledged best is killed (Senna and Earnhardt)...

Well that is when that denial no longer works. I hate it took those deaths for safety to be emphasized. I am thrilled that in F1 some lessons were learned from that even decades after Senna's death. Romain Grossjean's life was saved by the halo.

Drivers had complained about the halo when it was made a mandatory part of the F1 cars. F1 did it anyway and a life was saved by that decision. Thankful the lesson didn't have to be learned after the fact.