| In the wrong circumstances, the fiery crash last Sunday at the Bahrain Grand Prix would have ended in tragedy. But as injury biochemist Rachel Lance writes this week on Backchannel, the game has changed for race car drivers in recent decades. New science and technology—from specialized head restraints to high-tech driving suits—enabled the unfortunate driver, Romaine Grosjean, to walk away from his 137-mph collision with only minor injuries and not a single broken bone. The story of the engineers, scientists, and test pilots who spent years working out how to make driving—in race cars and in regular passenger vehicles—safer is a tale of awe-inspiring, and mostly unsung, triumph. Mark Robinson | Features Editor, WIRED |
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