Caporegime
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Precisely, why have a safety car at all, why have barriers, why have penalties for hitting other drivers if all safety is down to the driver.
The simple fact is that going around under double waved yellows a driver is both going as fast as possible because the RACE is still going, yes, a RACE< not a sunday drive in a park. If you want the drivers to stop RACING, you have to enable a situation that you know stops them RACING. Double yellow flags even if they worked as intended do not stop racing, they just slightly slow it.
When you are racing around a track with safety barriers and run offs, that is the decision you are making. Do I speed through this corner, what is the risk, the risk is I might go off and hit a barrier. The decision the driver makes isn't and shouldn't ever be, if I go too fast around this corner will I hit a massive moving concrete block that will almost certainly kill me.
That is the issue, going off didn't kill Bianchi, going off and hitting a truck that should never in a million years have been released into the track without COMPLETELY neutralising the race is what killed him.
Did Sutil die, is his going off that different to going off under a yellow? More importantly have we seen literally hundreds of cars go off in serious rain conditions under yellow flags.... absolutely. Brundle kept bringing up(over the past what 15 years) the incident where was it him that hit a freaking recovery vehicle where a half dozen cars went off on the same corner under yellow flags because the cars were simply not capable of staying on. The truck should never have been out then. A safety vehicle should never be released into a clear and obvious dangerous corner. That corner in Japan is known to be bad in the rain, the chance of someone else going off in the rain was too high. He died because he hit the truck instead of hitting a safety barrier.
People are also completely ignoring the fact that had he gone slower he may have had less downforce, LESS grip and still gone off, other cars with more downforce may have been able to go either faster or slower and not gone off. Rain is an unknown, changing conditions. It really shouldn't take a rocket scientist to know not to put a huge moving dangerous obstacle onto the outside of a dangerous corner in dangerous conditions.
