It’s not the night races I have a problem with but the street circuits, Monaco, Singapore and similar. Where they are run on real public roads, designed for road cars, lined with unforgiving barriers and no run off areas.
I prefer the, for want of a better word, "proper” circuits, Silverstone, Spa, Monza, Hungaroring. Don’t get me wrong I do like some street races but on tracks like Montreal and Melbourne that are different. Both have run-off areas and a greater number of high-speed corners than their more tightly packed counter parts. Hybrid—tracks like Abu Dhabi can be entertaining for a race if they are incident free.
A driver error at Silverstone, Red Bull ring, Spa etc usually just results in a leisurely trip over tarmac, gravel or kerb before re-joining the track, with of course one horrific exception at Imola.
Whereas a driver going off-line on a street circuit means it’s into the barriers and race end.
If drivers know there is less chance of ending their race by going through run off areas then they will take more risks, so on street circuits they will be more cautious which is engineered as a backdoor method by F1 to reduce risk. Of course this doesn’t always work, Stroll obviously overstepped the mark yesterday.
Anyway regardless of the track type, whether rain, shine, day, night, F1 is still better than watching 22 pansies kicking a pigs bladder about for an hour and a half.
