I have been a serious F1 fan for closing on four decades and I must implore you and anybody else who might be tempted to discount to present values the hope that you express, to consider just how far motorsports* the physical environment and envelope of racing has been altered:.

- magnesium (not alloy!) monocoque body shells were ruled out.

- as were countless rare or highly expensive materials that created paper thin transitions in operation before failure.

- strict cockpit exit limits are enforced, 5s max to be standing on the tarmac and already have the steering wheel replaced

- pit speed limit introduced and lowered

- cornering radii universally enlarged, both by track design and track enlargement

- ditto above because high torque hybrid formula propulsion gives you more apex profiles

- driver aides have been a feature of F1 regardless of the rules, at no time has every assistant device become illegal

- hundreds billions of dollars in chassis, monocoque and aerodynamic R&D have been expended since I was born.

- delta sector split times read out on the steering wheel, feeding the driver closing dynamics and other indicators alert to track slicks and debris

Those were in no particular order, but all changes to far more than likely possible with wingsuits and skydiving.

Moreover these changes happened over decades.

That may be too obvious.

Until you next hear a water cooler cringe worthy moment when a proverbial PHB or sales jock exclaims how everything is enabled nowadays to the ultimate, by modern technology. We're all susceptible to a little bit of that..

* in my example F1, which suffered a near 30% fatality rate in years around the time of my birth, causing F1 to take a early lead, but it is not the solitary work of F1, the HANS device is a NASCAR R&D product that has saved F1 lives certainly.

(I'm a rare advocate of taking much more of the American culture than would be popular, as I feel that avoidable accidents have occurred due to overreliance on the systems and that gut instincts are not on balance a negative in racing, as you may be inclined to imagine, if you are a American fan visiting your first F1 weekend. But the culture as a danger is something that F1 had to address internally, or be outlawed, very early in relative time.)

Edit: phone