Sadly, it is one of those races that will never be free of the spectre of death. It is, ultimately, a road race, through extremely technical and difficult scenery. FIA, ACO, JAF, IRL and whoever can impose all manner of safety standards on road courses, and improve the characteristics of street circuits, but there is always risk associated with motorcycle racing (Sepang is an ultra-modern, high-tech road course, and MotoGP has some of the best safety standards in the history of motorcycling, but that couldn't prevent an incident like Marco Simoncelli's), and policing open-road events like Pikes Peak to that standard is simply an impossibility regardless of who organises. Much like the Isle of Man TT, which has over 250 fatalities attributed to it, it is unfortunately one of those events that you simply know the risk going in. Like somebody said on the board back when Dan Wheldon's fatal accident shone a light to some serious holes in IRL's safety policy, the only problem is that the drivers like racing at those speeds on those courses if anything even more than we like to see them do it.