1: This I could possibly agree with, although requiring a safety car every time a car needs to be wheeled off seems excessive to me.
2: What "people"? The majority of the field were still happily driving around on intermediates. There was zero indication prior to the incident that the track was unsafe.
3: Hindsight is a brilliant thing. There was heavy rain forecast throughout the day. If they had started earlier, the heavy rain that delayed the start would have happened during the race.
This was a very unfortunate accident, as happens in motorsport sometimes. But I don't see any reasonable way to blame the organizers.
Massa and is on record as saying he was calling for a safety car 5 laps before it went out, he's one of the three directors of the GPDA (The Grand Prix Drivers' Association). It's 50/50 on who was happy on inters, only Hamilton is quoted as saying he didn't think it needed a safety car, many other people, including Jenson think it did. Don't be that guy who takes Hamilton's word for it, he is well known for only ever calling for a safety car whenever
he is Aquaplaning and tends to forget that some of the younger drivers or backmarkers are not able to hold it together like he can, as I fear we saw today.
I was watching the Sky coverage live so I may have a different perspective on this. Before the track parade even started Brundle categorically stated he felt that the main race should have taken place earlier when the support races did and the other's all couldn't understand why the FIA had asked twice rather than demanded.
I don't think this needs a knee jerk reaction, firstly we need to look at what is allowed trackside and also marshal training, this isn't the first time this year marshals have put themselves at risk. They should be thanking their stars that he hit the JCB and not the 4 of them stood round sutils car moving it.
Secondly we need to enforce the rules already in place, we are in danger of/already are thinking that because a fatal accident hasn't happened in 20 years then it won't happen and are getting lax, no way cars should have been going the speed the way they were with double yellows out for example.
A morbid fact is that there was a near fatal accident the last time it was a washout in Japan. 20 years ago, on that same corner, Brundle went off and his head missed hitting a JCB out to retrieve another car by inches.
