Green / White / Checkers

[nigelred5]

the red flag wasn't random. The situation had been discussed as early as July.
Any flag short of NASCAR's good ol competetion yellows should be spur of the moment.

My proposal is more than 10 laps, red flag as we generally know it, for major crash clean up. there's plenty of time to clean up and get back to racing at most tracks.
10-5 laps. red flag it, clean it up and give us a good 5-10 laps of actual racing. One shot at a good finish.
Under 5 laps-yellow flag it and finish it if you can clean it up in time. GWC is two laps of racing, and the way we handle restarts they may barely be up to speed by the time the white flag comes out.
The GWC is overtime and may penalize someone that had their fuel planned perfectly, and then is forced to run 2,4,6 laps or more after the scheduled race distance and looses the race because they run out of fuel.

[call_me_andrew]

We are not talking about the concept of red flags, we are talking about artificial ways to end the race under green.

As long as you're not making the race longer, why is that so bad?