As soon as Sir Jackie Stewart raised his tartan cap above the parapet on the issue of the Halo, you could bet good money on the wee Scot being ridiculed. Not much has changed, then.
We may be talking vastly different eras in terms of safety but Stewart was hammered far harder in the Sixties than now, the irony being that objections then were over his temerity in thinking about reducing unnecessary deaths rather than today's critics being outraged by how a safety device looks.
The urgent need to stem the loss of top drivers (one every month between April and July in 1968; one a month!