I don't disagree that the drivers own a majority stake of this last weekend's issues.
I was immediately behind the first incident between T6 and T7, which looked to me like it was simply a racing incident. One PRO3 car went wide coming off T6, initially two wheels in the dirt, and from my perspective it was obvious that he was going to hook back across the track. The other PRO3 car next to him didn't have the luxury of my view, nor any time to react, and the two of them got together. I checked up to avoid the carnage, and was grateful not to get drilled from behind. There was a lot of traffic in that zone, and the incident covered a majority of the surface, yet there were no secondary impacts. I personally thought everyone did a great job there. Given the scene, I expected a full course caution, and found double yellows as I approached turn 2B station. Kudos to the drivers involved and the workers for a very quick cleanup. The only complaint I have is that the pace car needs to go 5 mph faster so I don't burn my clutch up trying to stay behind.
I did not see the incident at the restart, my understanding is that drivers with radios got a better start than some without, and made some questionable choices about what constitutes racing room. I don't disagree that there should be some examination of the factors and behavior that contributed to this situation. Let me say that I'm certainly not without fault myself, I have made poor choices that have led to regrettable outcomes as well. Reflection is good.
One thing that needs to said though, is that the flagging was confusing at best, at least when I went through following the subsequent re-start incident.
Having said that, the flagging following the restart incident was confusing for me, and I didn't have 17 cars breathing down my neck. I saw a station with double yellows, checked up, only to come to the next station with no flags. Seeing the next station with no flags, I assumed the previous station displaying the double yellows simply hadn't pulled flags after the restart so I accelerated again only to come to the next station, now displaying double yellows. I'm trying to process what's going on while driving a race car at speed, and there are two possible scenarios that I can come up with in only a few seconds time: the unlikely chance that another station simply hasn't pulled flags after the restart, or, we are FCC again. Since I didn't have anyone racing me for position, and little traffic, I had the luxury of slowing to try to get a good read on the situation. I thought the next station will likely have double yellows flying and that would confirm that we were indeed under FCC again for some reason. The next station had no flags. I just decided to slow enough to be under full control, but proceed until things became clearer. Finally I passed two consecutive stations with double yellows, so things were indeed FCC.
I'm glad my class competition wasn't directly behind me trying to work a pass through all of this, because I would not have been able to dedicate the mental bandwidth to thinking through those possible scenarios. If so, I would have been looking to the next station to confirm or refute the previous flag, and finding no flags, it would have been game on.
I'm not sure we can lay all the responsibility for passes under yellow on the drivers. There were probably some black and white instances, but there also may have been some instances where the drivers did the best they could to read a very confusing situation and got it wrong.