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That’s absolutely true, but getting burned a rule which is deliberately designed to affect everyone fairly is a lot different than getting burned by a rule which is designed to treat a very few differently.
The current Code 60 rules says that Only The Top Five Cars cannot pit under Code 60—the rest of the field can pit at will. Cars from the top five which pit under Code 60 have to serve a penalty of .625 seconds times the length of the pit stop—up to a max of two minutes.
Even worse, cars are penalized even if they pit before the Code 60—if they are in the pits and a Code 60 is called, they are treated as if they deliberately pitted under Code 60.
Luckily most of the front-runners got caught, because Code 60s came about every hour—teams had to pit or run out of gas, and then at the end of the next stint, they had to pit under Code 60 again. It balanced out because most of the leaders got caught. However … a car running sixth could come in and pit on schedule under Code 60 and gain a couple minutes on the five leaders because they all had to serve penalties.
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