"A driver's job is to get the best out of the vehicle he's got." - Stirling Moss
As a young man when Moss told his father he intended to be a race driver, his father insisted that he wear a helmet. To which Stirling replied, "Dad, that's a bit sissy."
Stirling raced in an era when F1 drivers drove 200 miles per hour in open cockpits surrounded by gas tanks with their heads and shoulders exposed above a welded-together chassis. Life expectancy for a driver was predicted to be between 5 and 10 years, though few had careers lasting nearly that long: between 1953 and 1966, 22 drivers were killed racing, testing or qualifying for F1 events. - source
Nonetheless, 78-year old Stirling still has a competitor's perspective about crashing:
"If you're worried about safety, just go slower."
