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Originally Posted by ubrben
In addition, safety car strategy can allow teams to gain an advantage by short fuelling, etc.
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This is where things go wrong. There should NOT be a strategy based on the likelyhood that a safety car will be employed. It cannot be foreseen, (unlike weather changes) and its occurance will be random.
There is a joking post above about splitting up the race into sections. There could a more serious undertone to this. With modern telemetry it is exactly known where each car is at the moment that the safety car is called out. So all the relative time differences can be calculated, (everytime the safety car comes out). They should think of a way to take this differences into account at the final classification. It is going to be complicated, but it is much fairer than seeing all your efforts being wasted by some idiot who will spoil the race for everybody. And it is certainly not guaranteed that the fastest car will always re-emerge as the leader after a SC period as you say.
I will not deny that it could make races more exciting towards the end, but it has always to be borne in mind what the purpose of an SC period is, namely clearing the track and trying to influence the race as LITTLE as possible.