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Originally Posted by 91MR2quickNA
Actually the FIA is working to have 1 or 2 F1 races at night. All you need are really bright track lights. The cars themselves wouldn't need headlights as long as the driver can see. Securing the generators and temporary lights shouldn't be a problem for the temporary tracks like Melbourne or Monaco. Have you seen the lights construction companies use at night? It looks almost like daylight.
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I don't doubt the track lightings they have would suffice to make day out of night, but that's not really my point. My point was concerning absolute safety, such as what would happen if one section of a track's lighting suffers massive failure (which should be rare but you'll never know until it hits you). Unless every single inch of the circuit is properly lit (like oval racing tracks for Nascar which are much easier to light up since they're more "confined") with enough amount of safety backup to make sure there won't be power outage and such, IMO it's somewhat irresponsible to run F1 cars without them having on-board headlamps and tail-lamps. I know F1 cars do have tail-lamps, but currently it's just a rather small square of red-blinking light, which is hardly adequate and would require modification (such as full bright red during braking) to be truly effective under low-light visibility conditions.
All I'm saying is, if FIA or whoever has a way of working this out (but not sacrificing safety), I'm all for it. Hopefully it'll add more excitement to the monotonous "lack of passing" F1 racing of today, since the most drama F1 gets at the moment comes from the politics between FIA and the race teams (such as the McLaren espionage incident).
