Originally Posted by
waterrockets
You gotta keep those races stretched out. It won't eliminate crashes, but it sure helps. If it bunches up, someone from your team needs to head to the front and get things going (either off the front or on it). EDR did this for us last week, and enabled a safe sprint for everyone, just by dragging the field around at 28mph for a lap.
+1
I learned that in an early season crit this year. Sometimes it pays to string things out, even if you have to burn a couple matches to do it.