[Zeke]

IDT tracks are going to get bigger but most all of the established tracks have undergone major safety improvements with more runoff etc. Tight city streets just don't need to be. I will admit the Las Vegas track looked pretty good but I wasn't there. I'm in Long Beach so I know a street course. It's OK at just over 2 miles but very unforgiving with only 2 runoff areas and one escape that is convenient but not necessary.

F1 doesn't run on walled ovals so you can't compare that. However, without walls there would be a lot less carnage for cars that do race inside of walls. It's been a tradition for over a century but that doesn't mean the concept shouldn't be reviewed. Gotta start somewhere and some of the F1 tracks in use are pretty tight.

Smaller cars is part of the answer but at today's speeds a smaller car is going to be effectively much the same. What I'm saying is a lot of racing has become the X Games.

In the end, Indy wouldn't be Indy without the walls and 4 corners so there is bound to be carnage. It's what they do. Talladega is going to have the big one 9 times out of 10. If drivers and owners are good with that, who am I to say otherwise?

But you have to love Spa, right?