weather conditions and the reason?
Health and safety of players along with fans and TV viewers.
You don't let a boxing match continue after a guy is beaten senseless, the
ref intervenes.
That's the point of a safety car. It is so that the race can be fair and
equal and let each man fight it out. It's not exactly fair if a sudden
downpour and oil combine to send some on that side of the track to the
gravel while others who have already passed go home free. How does that let
each man fight it out? See what I mean?
> spectacle. If a meaningless spectacle is all you want, you might as well
> watch pro-wrestling. *Real* sports are a pure contest to find out who is
> the best. The few drivers who managed to make it past lap four without
> sliding off the track should have been rewarded with a huge lead. Boring
or
> not.
> CART is great, but one thing I dislike about it is the damn pacecar.
> > F1's use of safety cars is more frequent as of late and I think it comes
> > down to the situation in CART.
> > Frequent safety car periods allow maximum safety for drivers as it keeps
> > them all racing when potentially a lot would go out of the race making
for
> > bad TV.
> > It's obviously better for the fan as their is no mass crashes leaving a
> > field of 5 drivers, not as much need for red flags, and restarts making
> the
> > whole thing better overall while making it safer than letting cars run
> away.
> > Good move. I don't think they want it to be like CART though as being
like
> > CART makes people well... watch CART ;-)
> > > I remember a time when in such instances, races were red flagged and
> > > aggregate times from the first stint and restarted race were added
> > together
> > > to give a final result. This ***about using safety cars to allow
> people
> > to
> > > change tyres is just that. It might have been a slightly different
story
> > > today had real representative times been run, rather than artificially
> > > bunching up fields.
> > > MS
> > > > >Well it was mostly due to the fact that one lap it was sunny and
dry
> > the
> > > > >next it as monsoon season and all on only one section of the track!
> > (you
> > > > >could actually see the defining line between wet and dry on the
> track,
> > > wow!)
> > > > >You saw how everyone went off, they wanted to get everyone in, on
> wets
> > > and
> > > > >back out safely and then let racing commence.
> > > > And if they hadn't done so, you just know we'd be reading all about
> > > > how 'they' got it wrong on this group right now, wouldn't we?
> > > > DG