Dogs + Formula One= Bad

I've hit and killed two cats with my car in my adult life, leading me to think I have a special talent for accidental cat-killing. (Perfect example of the trend of two: why wait for three when you know the third in the series is coming any day now?)

In both cases, I was traveling around 40 miles an hour and had no way of missing the cats. One second: clear road. Next second: a cat looking up with the blank expression of an animal who suspects something very important is about to happen.

I imagine Bruno Senna's accident at Istanbul happened the same way: blue sky, black pavement in front of him, and then the thought "What the hell is a white dog doing on an F1 track?" nanoseconds before this happened: (Warning to those faint of heart: they do not actually show the dog getting hit, because they are European and sensitive to showing violence. Warning to those hoping to see the dog get hit: you will not see the dog actually getting hit.)

Senna was deservedly angry after the race.

"It's incredible. It's not as if we're in the back of beyond here. This is supposed to be a Formula One circuit," complained Senna in conversation with Motorsport Magazin adrivo.com.

It is in Turkey, though, relatively new territory for F1. And it could have been much worse: a second dog got loose on the track but was "allowed to escape" through a side gate, meaning the dog was allowed to "run like screaming hell" to somewhere where he wouldn't be hit by a car going 175 miles an hour.

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