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I cringed when the Speed Channel telecast of the race showed a very brief replay of the corner workers trotting up to the motionless rider laying on the track, then unceremoniously picking him up like a sack of potatos and plopping him onto a stretcher and running off with him. If his neck wasn't already terminally broken in the crash, it was by the time that these guys got done with him. Paramedics who respond to the scenes of trivial, low speed auto accidents use more cervical precautions than this poor man got. If I was a GP rider, I'd be just as concerned about the training of the course workers as I would be about the physical layout of the tracks.