All Tyred and Emotional

You couldn't go very far in the Montreal paddock before the subject of tyre safety cropped up. I've got to say, my initial reaction to Kimi Raikkonen's Nurburgring accident was to wonder what the fuss was about. Every time you went through the turnstiles as a kid, your ticket had four words of warning: Motor Racing Is Dangerous. This wasn't tiddly-winks. You were there at your own risk. Things might go wrong. If they did, bad luck. And that was spectators. If you were a driver it didn't even need spelling out.

But times change. Today, if something goes wrong, it's always somebody's fault. When I was a kid, if you tripped over a wonky paving slab, your Mum sent you down to the sixties equivalent of Spec Savers and you came back looking like Elton John. These days it's game on to sue the council for a few thousand quid.