It would seem GP scoring, by its nature, generates more risk than more traditional racing formats. One additional turn may cost 5 points out of 10 in GP but 1 point out of 1000 in a traditional format. Combine that with sending pilots over hostile terrain many are unfamiliar with and weak soaring conditions and you have a recipe for disaster.

On Monday, January 22, 2018 at 9:56:31 AM UTC-5, Andreas Maurer wrote:
On Sun, 21 Jan 2018 23:38:29 -0800 (PST), krasw
wrote:

Very sad news. Safety of WGC events has been appalling for decades and if you calculate accident rate / participants or flight hours in Grand Prix events, it must be at least tenfold, probably more. This is not acceptable, and still we accept it year after year. Yes it's beautiful, exhilarating and media-sexy to compete few meters from mountains but this is crazy. If they would have same accident rate in motorsports, events would be simply forbidden as too dangerous.


Taking in count Klaus Kalmbach's accident (which was of the type that
usually ends fatal), the Chile Grand Prix had two extremely bad
accidents in a starter field od 20 pilots, that's one out of ten.



Glad that someone mentions that this accident rate is unacceptable.



Andreas