Originally Posted by soulboy77:
“It seems to me the real issue is having a recovery vehicle trackside with cars still racing. You can design safety features into F1 cars, have run off areas to scrub off speed and barriers that can absorb an impact but it is all negated when you have a solid metal vehicle entering the arena.”
Not entirely sure about that.
I hope nobody takes this the wrong way (although I fear they will) but waved yellow flags, if their meaning is truly being observed,
should be sufficient.
The problem in this case seems to be that rather than slowing down sufficiently that they were able to stop if required
bearing in mind the prevailing weather conditions, the drivers were just "backing off a bit".
I suppose there's always the possibility that you might have, perhaps, one car crash and then another car suffer a jammed throttle and/or failed brakes and go ploughing into the other car, marshals or a rescue vehicle but when a fully-functional car falls off the track under yellow flags then clearly the driver
isn't actually obeying the intent of the yellow flags.
Perhaps the way forward would be for all drivers to have to engage their pit-lane limiters whenever they're going through a section of track controlled by waved yellows?
A first waved yellow would be an indication for a driver to slow down and engage the limiter and any driver who failed to comply by the time they went past a 2nd waved yellow (verified via telemetry) gets black-flagged?