When you lose one of the top guys, there is definitely something wrong. What does it mean for the rest of us ? I was at a race meeting in the 1970s and was talking to one of Australia's best. 5 minutes later he was dead. This has nothing to do with lack of respect - there is no respect when you are dead because you are not alive to enjoy it. If the cause of a fatality is never known - it can happen again in the same way.