In the 80-minute interregnum between FIA race control red-flagging proceedings in Belgium at the end of the formation lap behind the safety car and the race finally getting under way – albeit under neutralised conditions again – there was plenty of time for commentators and fans alike to tap their feet impatiently.
Among the sodden fans in the grandstands, the broadcasters contemplating how to fill all that ‘dead air’, and the fans back home wondering whether to switch channels to a repeat of Columbo instead, naturally a consensus formed that race control should simply get on with it.
