Caporegime
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Again I really wouldn't focus too much on the safety car, they could have not deployed a safety car AND not put a tractor out there. F1 cars hit F1 cars all the time, it's not as safe as hitting a barrier but its a ridiculous amount safer than hitting a ******* tractor or the counter weight on a tractor. Ultimately if the tractor wasn't there, Bianchi could have gone off and another 4 cars and no one might have been injured. Again someone showed a video early in this thread of a similar situation, terrible conditions, aquaplaning and a moronic decision to send a tractor out as cars were still flying off on that corner, a car HIT the damn tractor, but at low speed, side on and hit the tires, that could have been worse.
In dry conditions where it would take a significant driver error to go off on certain corners, then removing cars without a safety car is somewhat necessary but obviously depending on the position of the car we get safety cars pretty often anyway. But in the rain, every track should have a list of high danger corners that under rain and under aquaplaning danger tractors should never be allowed on the track without a safety car. That doesn't automatically mean a safety car, sometimes just leaving the car where it is would be fine. Sutil's car would have been far far less dangerous to hit for Bianchi than the freaking tractor/counter weight.
AS I've hinted at though, speed limits have to be implemented in some situations. With no actual speed drop requirement with a yellow flag, drivers can't risk slowing down much. Because one guy could drop 30kph, a guy behind him might only drop 25kph and he'll gain an advantage. This pushes all the drivers to drop speed as little as possible.
Remove the option, put an actual speed they have to stick to and they'll stick to it, does anyone speed in the pitlane(intentionally) no, drivers stick to rules and push the limits on every rule. Make the rule safe so even if they push the limit it's still safe. "slow a bit please" means they are pushing top speed, "slow to 125kph max" is a limit they wouldn't break if told not to.
In dry conditions where it would take a significant driver error to go off on certain corners, then removing cars without a safety car is somewhat necessary but obviously depending on the position of the car we get safety cars pretty often anyway. But in the rain, every track should have a list of high danger corners that under rain and under aquaplaning danger tractors should never be allowed on the track without a safety car. That doesn't automatically mean a safety car, sometimes just leaving the car where it is would be fine. Sutil's car would have been far far less dangerous to hit for Bianchi than the freaking tractor/counter weight.
AS I've hinted at though, speed limits have to be implemented in some situations. With no actual speed drop requirement with a yellow flag, drivers can't risk slowing down much. Because one guy could drop 30kph, a guy behind him might only drop 25kph and he'll gain an advantage. This pushes all the drivers to drop speed as little as possible.
Remove the option, put an actual speed they have to stick to and they'll stick to it, does anyone speed in the pitlane(intentionally) no, drivers stick to rules and push the limits on every rule. Make the rule safe so even if they push the limit it's still safe. "slow a bit please" means they are pushing top speed, "slow to 125kph max" is a limit they wouldn't break if told not to.
