Don't know if this is the reason or not, but if you time the safety car laps, you can remove the age old complaint of "he wasn't going fast enough and my tyres got cold" when the first 3 cars end in the gravel on the first post S/C lap.
Most timekeepers can produce a lap by lap report for each car (if you ask them nicely!), so you can prove that the safety car was averaging 50mph, 60mph or whatever.
As I say, I don't know if this the reason, but it could be one possibility.
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