I think what some of us are trying to point out is that the best racer in the world can make a mistake. That mistake likely shouldn't result in death. We understand the accidents happen, and we often hope they do, but we never thought in a million years that racer error could result in flying out of the 'arena' and nailing the support beams for the judge podium. A crash can happen and should happen, what shouldn't happen is athletes leaving the track. That is the gist of this argument.
Anyone who has done any software testing (or testing in general) tests for every scenario possible, until budget or time line constraints start holding the project back. This is likely where a good chunk of the investigation will go - did computer models pinpoint this situation and what was done about it? If the software did not identify this corner as being a problem then the programmers will be hard at work to understand why the computer let them down (although if I was them, I would have been investigating as soon as I heard about the death). I don't know what they use to model this type of track...I would imagine if it's physics model is linked at all to roller coaster design, those guys for sure are double checking as well. If it turns out no computer modeling was used at all in the track design, then I would imagine either someone is in a lot of trouble, or this sport is in drastic need of 'modernization'.
Either way, the sport is not meant to launch players out of the track due to racer error. Anyone who has every participated in any 'speed' sport knows anything can happen at any time. As an ex ski 'racer', I bailed a few times when a spot of snow was really ice. Thankfully there was no chairlift beam at the turn.
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