Doesn’t it only eliminate that possibility in one class? Hence the chance that the other three classes an unfair loss of lap will occur. Gaps shrink with any FCY, so that’s the same. Other cars are inbetween (lapped or other classes) unless you wave round.
What about the pit stop part. Do you still close the pits and open? This adds time to the procedure, but is probably more often fair in that someone doesn’t luck in, or suffer, from just having stopped.
Current Procedue
It might be worth just recapping the current procedure.
I believe the criteria for having the full procedure is as follows (it was mentioned on IMSA radio, although not all the commentators seemed familiar with it!). If there is less than 30 minutes left in the race or it is less than 30 minutes since the last full FCY procedure of pit stops and wave rounds then they will not run the whole procedure. It would be good to confirm this.
If they do the full procedure then race control will do something like this:
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Originally Posted by RC
19:17 FULL COURSE YELLOW
19:20 PREPARE FOR PASSAROUND
19:20 COMMENCE PASS AROUND
19:22 PITS OPEN PROTOTYPE
19:26 PITS OPEN GT
19:31 COMMENCE FINAL WAVE-BY
19:33 COMMENCE DPi CLASS SPLIT
19:34 COMMENCE PROTOTYPE CLASS SPLIT
19:38 GREEN FLAG
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This generally take 20-21 minutes as we saw at Daytona. The isn’t much change to this time. This period will vary by about 3 minutes as an average safety car lap is a little over 3 minutes so depending on how it falls it might just mean one more lap.
http://results.imsa.com/Results/22_2...lysis_Race.PDF
This document also shows how long was under yellow (6 hours) and what the average green period was (about an hour) and the longest (just under 5 hours) and the shortest (under 7 minutes)
It is not really dependent on the actual accident, but could be longer for a big problem.
Please correct or add missing details.