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Originally Posted by leothedrummer
I can't agree with this - number one priority when talking about a safety car should be exactly that....safety. Not competition or entertainment. If a safety car is needed, it should be deployed immediately. If safety car deployment can wait a lap or two so as to not mess up the race, then the safety car wasn't needed in the first place.
And if it isn't "fair" to deploy immediately, then it isn't "fair" to deploy later....there's always going to be someone getting shafted, but that's something that should come down to bad luck, not a conscious decision to help one party but not another.
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Don't disagree at all, which why the system needs to be revised. We've seen the safety car wait to pick up the leader after some reasonably big crashes in the past, yet here they could have waited but didn't. The SC was still needed for the recovery, when it was called before the car got moving again that is, and this one was not typical in that more often cars are stopped in dangerous positions.
I think they need to have more options to use, absolute focus on safety where necessary, but where urgent response is not needed a system to minimise interference with the race result.