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Accidents happen. Sometimes they happen on the first lap. This is part of racing.
Sure, it can be upsetting to get caught up in someone else's mistake. But next time maybe you'll be the beneficiary of better luck that will cancel things out. That's racing.
Learning to deal with these ups and downs makes someone not only a better racer, but also a better person.
We don't remember the races where we start 4th and finish 4th, but we do remember the ones where we came from 8th and finished 3rd. Drivers out of position with their pace is what results in wheel to wheel action. That little bit of randomness you get sometimes from the first lap in racing is part of what makes it fun.
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If it's an accident, it's an accident. But if someone hacks another driver or cuts the circuit they should be penalized. That's what the race referees should be concentrating on, not whether their bad driving should result in a restart or not.
Perhaps but some get extremely caught up in these big events, if they set themselves up for it and feel they have a chance to win a States, or a Nats and then get hacked out by someone overenthusiastic who just scraped into the amain trying to overtake everyone on turn one, is it fair for them (who may have done everything right) to be taken out like that? I think that's what this is trying to curb. One backmarker can cost someone a state title, or a national title, it is how it is, so anything that can be done to minimize this should be encouraged.