In all fairness, there were relatively few crashes. Sky showed the 1999 Australian GP last night, where two cars caught fire on the grid, three then stalled, one never left the grid due to a gearbox failure, both McLarens retired due to mechanical faults, the two Prosts wiped each other out, Villeneuve's rear wing fell off for no reason, giving Schumacher a puncture 14 laps later, and so on and so forth.
Out of 22 cars at the start of the race, 1 didn't start, 13 retired and only 8 finished. Schumacher last, Eddie Irvine winning for Ferrari.
I think they said last year that the perfect F1 combination would be Adrian Newey (Vettel's race engineer and the guy who designed his car) and Lewis Hamilton, but Christian Horner (Red Bull team principal) has said he will not pair Hamilton with Vettel.
Andrew