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They have so heavily revised many of the tracks with the tight first turns that there is just more room to take avoiding action.

I think the qualifying procedures of the last few years have also ensured the fastest cars are up front. With the parc ferme rules regarding race set-ups, race fuel weights and the lask of sticky qually rubber, the grid is almost a given week to week if you ask me. There was a time when a team with a superb driver with some really large tackle could REALLY trim it out on sticky qualifying tires and throw down a lap they had no hope in hades of maintaining in a race. It got them up front, but they probably didn't belong up there. I also just don't see the raw emotion in the drivers any more, so we rarely see drivers willing to really go for it like a Senna, Prost, Namsell, Piquet did. It's generally a stupid mistake that causes the accident these days, not overt agression. Traction control and launch control have also made the starts a game of engine output and software application, not skill and testosterone. The cars are so fast off the line and into that first turn, there's sometimes hardly time for the pack to really get all twisted up. Thery are spread out already by the time they converge at the first braking point

The curent Quallys are made for the show on saturday and not much else.