[smokeberly]

Well atleast you can't say the safety stuff hasn't paid off

Well can't really say it has, either, for example Senna wouldn't have gotten anything but bruises, if even that, from his deadly crash had it happened couple years later, the cars have become much, much more safe, there's no proof really (as far as I know) that the track changes have made any real difference.
Not to mention they've made overtaking harder etc