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I know I'm opening a controversial topic here, but are we erring too much on the side of caution in modern F1? I'm not saying we should go back to the sixties and have multiple drivers die every season, but motorsports are inherently dangerous and shouldn't there be a level of acceptable risk that is higher than zero? Maybe I'm a psychopath, but I feel like we could trust the drivers a bit more. Surely we could have started this race 20 minutes earlier? There were dry patches showing when they started doing laps behind the safety car for fucks sake!
Anyway I don't have too much to say about the race itself honestly. I'm mostly feeling disillusioned about the state of things. I feel bad for all the drivers that went to a wet setup.
Also I've already opened controversial doors this comment so fuck it, it needs to be said: is Spa just a bad track for modern F1?
Compared to just five years ago, they have been more risky during this and last season. We've seen more standing starts for example and just a few weeks ago in Silverstone we saw a crash at Copse corner (Hadjar rear-ended Antonelli) because visibility was so bad. At Spa, after multiple fatal accidents at the same corner over recent years, yes absolutely they'd rather err on the side of caution.