Race cars crash, Journal reports.

An article in the British Journal of Sports Medicine reported that professional Formula 1 and MotoGP motorbike racing is "inherently dangerous." The authors recommended "innovative clothing" to "selectively defend key anatomical structures" from excruciating whiplash, crashes, subsequent catastrophic explosions, and being run over after one's body is ejected, Wile E. Coyote-style, from the driver's seat. Other suggestions include replacing the metal rails on Grand Prix raceways with "pads of hard foam." Trials still are in the preliminary stage, but data are trending toward "hard foam" having an utterly nonsignificant effect on skeletal injury--unless one considers its flammable properties, in which case, the effect is significantly negative. The authors also highlighted the health risk posed by high-speed cornering at a lateral force of up to 4.5 G. "Such lateral forces make breathing difficult, [and] are associated with unusual disorders," they wrote, including, but not limited to, peeing one's pants and screaming for one's mommy. They concluded that, "if Formula 1 cars or MotoGP motorbikes lose control at more than 300 km/hr, there is very little that can be done to prevent the driver from being seriously injured." Maybe some knee pads might help.