I don't think it was anything to do with Clearways, or Brands Hatch, or poor Andrew Pitt (who must really be pretty fucked up by what has happened - Craig was a mate of his, apparently). I saw Craig Jones being Craig Jones and hanging onto a bike that was travelling sideways right on the lockstops absolutely flat out in a way that no other rider this side of Gary McCoy could even contemplate, and then he slide off the inside of the bike and was hit within the blink of an eye by Andrew Pitt's front wheel which he fell under. Anybody else would have highsided into the gravel trap a second or two earlier, but Craig obviously thought he could hold it. If he hadn't slipped off the inside of the bike he probably could have as well.

The tragedy was caused, then, by a combination of wheel to wheel racing on the ragged edge, and bad luck. But Craig Jones lived for wheel to wheel racing on the ragged edge, and luck is a fickle mistress.

Or, to put it another way, when motorbikes are raced, once in a while, despite everybody's best efforts, unbelievably bad shit happens.

And this was unbelievably bad shit :-(.