This could impact all racing in the uk

[Drumroll]

Shakey Byrne has won his case against MSV and MCRCB. I fear this ruling will have serious repercussions for club motorsport in the UK.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyg0z67yr6o

[Trev450]

Oh dear a real can of worms has been opened.

[bergclimber34]

I doubt it will affect car racing, The major reasons for this case are this was a BSB test session, therefore the man had a reasonable expectation to expect a certain sort of fence (an air fence) to be in place at certain locations, that fence was not present, he had an accident, broke his neck and was retired from the sport, a sport he was already likely to be retiring from within the next year or so anyway. And actually a sport he had earned millions from over his career. He was also a hooligan on the road, so possibly quite lucky to be able to have a career at all by the way.

This will not affect car racing as drivers are not going to be hitting a fence designed to prevent personal injury like an airfence, it will only be an issue in things like NASCAR where the SAFER barrier is placed in front of the wall etc.

If you crash in a car into a barrier you are potentially likely to injure yourself, but the point here was that for bikes another airfence barrier is placed in FRONT of the regular barrier to cushion a rider hitting it, and was not, we do not know if it SHOULD have been that is a legal technicality, but I doubt it as he has won the case and will win millions in compensation no doubt

We all also know that insurance is going to be the real issue as it was with rallying post the Scottish incidents that have changed the sport completely for spectators in some ways especially on local club events.

[stevieturbo]

Drumroll said:

Shakey Byrne has won his case against MSV and MCRCB. I fear this ruling will have serious repercussions for club motorsport in the UK.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyg0z67yr6o

Absolutely crazy.

People like that should never be allowed to take part. His own fault he crashed, he knew the risks. Bloody disgrace, but typical of dirty lowlife claim hungry lawyers.

Let's hope even if he recovers, no motorsport body will ever allow him to take part again.

[bergclimber34]

He has long since retired and oddly is a pundit for the series he was riding in, likely being paid aswell!

[Steve H]

That article gives very little detail, certainly not enough to understand if it was a reasonable claim or not.

There will be approved levels of protection for different types of race events that gave been signed off not just by the circuits but by the governing bodies of the sports. This stuff is regularly reviewed and updated based on ever improving safety standards, and using the knowledge gained by reviewing any incidents that have occurred.

If the usual standard for a race weekend was to have added protection at that point and it wasn’t there for a test day I could see a potential case but if all the approved and agreed equipment was in place then it’s hard to expect a circuit to have a crystal ball that predicts an accident that even the sports governing body didn’t think would need guarding against.