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Originally Posted by KelVarnsen
Did Button bring some NASCAR to F1?
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This statement is 100% accurate. However, I don't know if it was Button or Liberty Media who brought NASCAR to F1.
One of the big knocks on NASCAR lately is it's too much of the contrived drama late in the races, mostly for TV purposes. I've seen more phantom debris cautions in the past couple years than I can remember.
There is a push amongst purists to get rid of stage breaks and overtime. At the very least going to single file restarts that aren't the initial start or the restart after a stage. NASCAR rarely red flags the races and the end result of this is the pace car damn near gets the bonus point for leading the most laps. The Xfinity race I attended this year had 69/200 caution laps.
Were there too many red flags last night? Possibly.
Would I prefer a race stoppage over the pack circulating for multiple laps behind the safety car? Absolutely.
There will be "bad" races, either due to weather, somebody running out of talent, or a team nailing the setup and lapping up to 4th. That's the nature of racing.
I would not be surprised to see a change to the sporting regulations that any red flags with less than 5 laps remaining are to utilize the rolling start procedure. FIA needs to define a restart zone on the pit straight and the leader fires anywhere inside that zone, no overtaking until they cross the finish line.