Mogster wrote: ↑08 Oct 2023, 12:37
basti313 wrote: ↑08 Oct 2023, 11:07
djones wrote: ↑07 Oct 2023, 19:55
3 safety cars in a sprint what a joke.
I have been posting this here since more than a year: It simply calls for a penalty if someone is unable to park his car right and causes a Safety Car.
Yesterday was not even as bad on causing SC without reason as in the past, but still...Sar, Law, Per and Oco...all stupid driving. You may argue, that Per was not at fault (arguable if you stick your car on the outside of two other cars), but all others made their own bed. Especially Sargeant was not even beached, he simply switched off the car without reason. That would have been well deserved 3 places grid drops for all destroying big parts of the Sprint.
I would be for a very simple rule:
- If a SC is needed to remove your car -> 3 places for the next race.
- If a SC is needed to remove parts from (only) your car -> 3 places for the next race.
Only exception if you are crashed out, the other driver receives a pen and there was no chance to get the car to a safe place -> 3 places for the one causing the crash.
This rule would bring the SC likelihood strongly down...
Sometimes there are issues with bad parking. However, the teams may have told the drivers to shut down to avoid a nasty repair bill.
Yes, exactely this is the point. They can either risk a repair bill and go to a safe exit or they switch it off immediately and go back three places. I do not see what speaks against this choice?
Today they just switch it off and do not give any $hit.
Mogster wrote: ↑08 Oct 2023, 12:37
Also do you really want drivers staying on track with a damaged car, shedding fluids or carbon? A pointless attempt to leave a gravel trap can deposit gravel on the circuit. Any of these situations can bring out an SC.
This is why you need the second sentence: If they spill oil or parts they also go back three places. You should not miss, that they neither need to go back to the pits nor leave the gravel. If they know where the save exits are, they simply go into the save exit. For example...we never saw a car backing up into an exit. They just switch off and go away...because it simply does not matter.
Of course...a situation like Magnussen where the engine blows in the middle of the straight (I think it was Q?) is unfortunate...but then he goes back 3 places, and nothing happened. Just because of 2-3 unfortunate cases...I would say that more than 50% of the SC can be avoided or reduced to a short VSC if the driver just tries to.