As in April Fool's, man. Anyway, I have an idea regarding the cautions and such...
I am a frequent crasher, lol, anyone will tell you I get a little ADHD and lose control while driving all alone, on a straight. I would really hate it if I were in the lead and spun out, became a passenger of my own car and took out the entire field behind me. To me, that's a retire.
As with collisions on high speed tracks, well, that is just the thing... a fender touch on Daytona can end someone's race, or in the case of GT6 put you in last place. And that can be rough to find out after a mass collision that the further behind group of cars can't catch up with the lead group and therefore is out of contention for podium. Who can say who is at fault, and how do you correct the mistake after the fact? Well you can try to be as fair to everyone as possible, but you will find that someone will always get shafted. Be it that lap times got ruined, positions got lost, etc. With a chain reaction all you can do afterwards is determine whether someone caused it by being negligent or careless while passing or drafting and then disqualify them, the chaos caused in the remaining competitors is then just like a random shuffle, the best will still win, I guess, who is to say. But what if it was two racers going 224mph side by side and they both correct their line a little at the same moment and touch doors and spin together? Do both get kicked? What if only THEY spun and nobody else was involved? Do they then just contend with their new positions behind everyone else and keep in it?
In most cases I think fault can clearly be assigned to one party or another, but those usually are minor crashes or shunts at lower speeds, not like in our c&m room where we constantly mash into one another for the sole purpose of stopping opponents. Most accidental collisions result in one or both cars slowing a little or a lot, worst case spinning out. Another type of crash I see a lot are re-entry collisions. Like when a driver crashed and ends up on the grass and drives back onto the track right into the line of another driver at full speed.
So how would you go about doing a caution? And why? To avoid secondary collisions with the parties involved in the initial crash? Any caution might come too late to avoid traffic hitting a crashed car. I think the most use we would get from a caution would be to reset the field and to adjust positions of the drivers who were involved. It's definitely worth trying.
Too wordy?
