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Originally Posted by coppice
Odd that we have managed decades of club racing without code 60 .....
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"We" managed decades of racing at all levels without safety cars or, indeed all sorts of stuff that we now consider necessary.
Code 60 is
NOT the problem; if it had not been available at Cadwell those races would have been neutralised by the use of the Safety Car, resulting in the loss of even more racing laps.
The organising clubs are not philanthropic organisations, they are businesses. To survive a business must make money; the clubs make money by charging their customers, the drivers, for their product, races.
Back in the "good old days", not so many years ago, a typical one-day club meeting would run seven or eight races; now it can be as many as eleven or twelve. Why? Because the cost of running a race meeting is now so high that the clubs are having to spread the cost over more entrants to keep the cost of entry down to something like reasonable (well, actually they are far from reasonable!).
Given the increased number of races to cram into a meeting, the clubs don't have the luxury of having plenty of slack in the timetable to allow for race stoppages so, for better or for worse, incidents which in the past would have caused a race stop are being dealt with on a live track with the race neutralised, be it with the Safety Car or under code 60. By doing that there's a reasonable chance that the programme can be completed without the need to shorten or, even worse, cancel subsequent races.
Code 60 may not be perfect, but it's a real-world solution to a real-world problem.