This is what you get when the regulations and the BoP make the cars so incredibly close.
The best chances of making up places are on the opening laps when things haven't come up to operating temperatures yet.
Everyone knows it but it's the intelligent, experienced folk that know the race isn't won on the first lap.
Unfortunately, all it takes is one desperate knuckle head that gets greedy, and we end up watching million dollar ten pin bowling.
Once we end up with cars skating down the grass verge lining the edge of the circuit out of control, all outcomes look 💩
How do we prevent that?
Sand traps? Catch fencing that deflects the car into the barrier?
I am definitely not a fan of adding tarmac everywhere and defining a circuit by a painted white line, but if the grass verges were tarmac in the recent Monza incidents, I have no doubt things would've ended up a lot cheaper, and the innocents further up the starting order most likely would have made it to the Curva Grande.
