bernard wrote:So you suggest safety car and heavy cleaning machinery after every minor crash? This would mean safety car every ten minutes or so... kills the race. To get the track really clean you need to have those cleaning cars on the track, and that takes a long time.
There didn't use to be this much punctures last season. Michelin has had to go to extremes on their tyres to match Bridgestone.
i think most of the crashes we have seen this year, other than those right at the start, have been because of debris on the track - many of the major ones, especially. if you clean the track properly after the first one, you wont have as many resultant crashes, so i dont think there will be a saftey car out every ten minutes. i do agree though, that stopping the race to clean the track after every crash would kill the race. perhaps smaller cleaning machinery used for the minor crashes that could be hand operated by marshels and would only require a local yellow, but still be able to suck up all dangerous objects on the track, would help?