No there are no speed limits in formula 1 racing but the safety factor is a lot higher than we have. You see them with baracades around the track, you don't see the crowd right up at the track either. Accidents do happen and spectators do occasionally get hurt but the potential for that is minimal compared to how we run jet meets with the crowds allowed only feet from the pits or flight line

I have to say that the 200 mph rule does not bother me, I don't find it fun just flying in a circle going really really fast. I do like the occasional high speed pass right down the runway, but usually on the outer edge of the runway and when I am flying at my home field. I have to admit I expected something like this sooner and be glad that they left it at 200mph, they could have made it a significantly lower number. I think it is a smart thing to have the limit set, my first time going to Florida Jets a few years ago a well known and respected pilot was making a very high speed pass when a rudder came off, lucky for him and the crowd that the plane went down in a spot between two cars. 20 feet in either direction and it would have gone into the crowd. I have also seen someone else come down the runway for a high speed pass and their radio went into lockout and fortunate for them the plane was straight and level when it did and crashed at the end of the runway, could you imagine if he had been in a turn banked at the crowd.

All you guys that are b*tching about the 200 mph limit just think about how much worse it could have been.

Patrick.