I saw Kimi once approaching an accident at a Grand Prix - smoke and debris everywhere. The track was two car widths wide - he put his foot down and went through at 200 mph - blind !
The onboard footage showed all he could see was smoke and he knew there was a car wreck.
He later said he relied on the fact that the other driver would have tried not to be on the racing line so he took it at full throttle
300 man points for that !

I too knew someone who raced bikes, he had exactly that look in his eye - unhinged when sat on a bike - normal in real life

Best
Rod

Donald.

I thought that entry into the ‘pits’ was truly pathetic - where was the 90mph approach, slap back into 3rd, hard hand brake while fast snap to the left, leaving an arc of snow as a slowly descending curtain? Nowhere!

Ye gods! Kimi has a death wish! And truly impressive. You are right about the brain wiring. A friend was on the verge of making the big-time in the Grand Prix Motorcycle world, until an accident(!) slowed him that fraction of a second - but still there is that wild enthusiastic glint in the eye, almost maniacal, and quite different from other slower folk. I’m sure TE Lawrence would have possessed it, too.

Yours in a quite mild summer,

Donald.

LB