After the sad death of Justin Wilson in an Indycar race renewed a debate in F1 about closed cockpits or other cockpit protection, Daniil Kvyat said that it is racing’s nature that unfortunate things will happen as a result of its danger.
“Racing is dangerous, that’s unfortunate,” Kvyat said.
“It’s always a sad thing,” he said of Wilson’s death which was caused by flying debris from another accident, which struck his head.
But Kyvat said that he started in motor racing knowing that danger was in its nature: “I started the sport with scars here and scars there, I know that it’s not a safe sport,” he added, pointing at scars on his arms, “it’s all [from] racing, it’s [from] karting, karting is even more dangerous [than F1].
“In a way you have to be also a little bit crazy to understand these kind of things. But we all not it’s not the safest sport and I go there knowing that anything can happen.”
Kvyat doesn’t support the idea of closed cockpits, believing they go against the ‘philosophy’ of Formula 1.
“It’s easy to talk now [but] open cockpits have been in F1 since it started,” he said.
“To be honest I don’t know what should happen with closed cockpits but I don’t think it’s the F1 philosophy. I might be the guy who might [have the worst happen] because of this, but I understand that it’s not the safest sport in the world.”
