Philthy82 wrote:
I just don't get why anyone wants the leader to control the restart. It results in dickish slowdown/speed up behaviour that has caused a lot more collisions than the one last weekend, and the only one who gains from it is the leader who generally gets a huge jump. Everyone else has a choice between falling way behind or potentially causing an accident. Let the lights signal go time for everyone and the drivers with the quickest reactions can benefit, and we might actually see some overtakes.
Yeah we'd also see ridiculous carnage
Firstly, you'd have to take your eyes off the road/car infront to see the lights. They're hard enough to see when a driver is sitting still on the grid, imagine in motion? Bottas was going "slow" on that restart and he was probably still doing 120-150km/h? Then imagine trying to find the lights when it's wet and there's spray everywhere, or at night when there's hundreds of lights in your eyeline. Yes drivers have a screen on their steering wheel/dash but there's the problem of it being automated, sending signals to the car, differences in those signals being sent. Then, with a light system, you'd get drivers backing off from the car infront and trying to anticipate the lights, nail the gas and hope it turns green before the driver infront reacts.
NASCAR can drop to a flag because they approach the line very slowly and have long gear ratios so accelerate slowly. F1 cars could do that, but that's dangerous too, with drivers getting wheelspin trying to manage 1000hp on cold tyres with short gear ratios.
Current system is fine, Sunday was just a cluster fuck caused by Russell. Only thing I'd change is make it single file, no overlapping allowed.
