"One last thing. It was mentioned last night that it’s not really fun for the slower drivers when we don’t have enough racers to split abilities, particularly when being lapped and in some cases punted out of the way by the fastest cars".
This is one of the reasons why it's better with staggered starts, to race against time in the Qs instead of all going off at the same time......it's spreads the drivers out over the track making it easier to pass the slower drivers when they catch up