After a bit of time to reflect, I've come to sympathise a little with Race Control - I feel they used the Safety Car to stop Jamie and co flying around the rest of the track to beat Scotty and the rest out of the pits.
So it was essentially used for safety, which is hard to argue against. Yes, it affected the race result, but looking at Jamie's sector times after he passed the SC shows drivers are still pushing and with no real way to punish that behavior, Race Control used the SC in rather an unorthodox, but SAFE manner (to begin with anyway).
|