Its a confusing world indeed, Single Seater racing because we're often told how fragile these cars are and that how if we leaned on one in the wrong direction we could snap the suspension, and in some cases there is minor side on wheel to wheel contact when the suspension breaks and you think "c'monnnn, how brittle are these things?"
Based on that info you could certainly argue that bumps should be eradicated because the impression is if the car so much as looked at one the wrong way it'd be snapping off its suspension pieces like it hit a mine.
But then you start seeing cars popping wheelies and knocking into each other off the start with few if any adverse effects and suddenly you realise maybe this "open wheel cars are so fragile" stuff is based off of information from 10 years ago or something.
I for one expected to see Webber pit with underfloor damage that made his car un-drivable if not a bit of front suspension damage but was amazed, and pleased, to see him continue unaffected.
So maybe it depends on the type of force a car receives, maybe on bumpy track the suspension is completely different to one where the surface is marble smooth and the cars are forced into taking more load when the engineers would love everywhere to be smooth so they could design the cars to their ideal conditions for speed, not durability, who knows.
Either way there's conflicting information coming out across all of open wheel about just how much of a beating they can take.
I just wish they got to a point where you could organise a street race and leave in the speedbumps...that'd be a true driver challenge: who is so desperate for the victory they're willing to risk terrible lower back pain for the rest of their lives?
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