What can be done with the safety car?

So many times this year we've seen people get lucky or unlucky with when the safety car comes out with regards to their pit strategy.





Remember Piquet in Germany? Heidfeld in Canada? Alonso in Singapore? Obviously they all had to work for their results, but the fact remains that they all gained huge amounts of places due to a safety car situation.





Can anything be done to stop this happening? Should anything be done, or is luck just part of the sport?|||The only thing they can really do is get rid of the stupid new rule which "closes" the pitlane until the cars are all lined up behind the safety car. Otherwise it's just a question of pot luck...and the only way to get rid of THAT problem is to go back to waved yellow flags before and at the accident site and get rid of the safety car altogether. That would mean no overtaking and lower speeds in the danger area, but the gaps and speeds and racing could stay more or less the same elsewhere. It worked like that with no big accidents for decades.|||They should scrap that unworkable and frankly, daft 'Pit Closure' rule. Look at Rosberg, he HAD to come in and got un-necessarily penalised for it. What are they supposed to do? Run out of fuel?


Bollox!





The FiA are being stubborn and should scrap this rule asap|||the safety car is there for the Marshalls and no one else!


|||red snooker is right, the safety car came out when the pitstops were going to take place.





that rule needs to be changed!|||.





I think that it can work if the team posts their anticipated pit lap with Race Control. This pit lap is posted say 10 laps before the stop.





Example: Ferrari have an anticipated "in lap" of lap 20. They post that lap secretly with Race Control on lap 10. If subsequently the the Safety Car comes out they can choose to come in on lap 20 or stay out.





Any team that fuels their car outside their designated lap incurs a penalty.





Luck is part of the sport, but it should be limited as much as possible.





.|||To be honest I quite like seeing people who are normally slow benefitting from the safety car. I think Singapore would have been quite boring if it weren't for that first safety car giving Alonso and Rosberg great chances. It also challenges other drivers like Hamilton and Massa to see what they can do when they're not at the front.





It's complete luck what happens when a safety car is deployed, and since it can go either way for the best drivers and the worst drivers then it can potentially be really interesting. What's irritating is when the frontrunner has a 30s lead wiped out but in theory if they're fast enough then they'll just pull away when the safety car goes away.





They really should do away with this closing the pit lane though. I really don't understand the point in it at all. Why would it be a problem if people could go in to the pits at any time?|||Don't forget Hamilton in Monaco. He benefited from the shuffling of the field due to his own accident there and would not have won without it.


It adds an element of chance but, as in poker, the best players may lose hands but will not be beaten in the long game.|||I feel that if FIA were serious about safety, if there is an accident requiring a safety car, they should make EVERYBODY pit as per the Red flag rule. They can then clear the mess, get rid of the crashed car without having to worry about marshalls getting hit or cars running over debris and sustaining puncture etc. They can then restart the race by rolling start behind the safety car in the order they were in when the accident happened.


Whilst in the pits, cars are not allowed to refuel or change tyres unless they need to (all teams to submit confidentially their planned first pitstop lap to Charlie).


Having said that, I don't really mind the lottery that is the current safety car rule. They do need to rethink the penalty for pitting whilst the pitlane is closed - now that's unfair. I don't see why the teams couldn't tell the race director before the beginning what lap they are intending to pit.|||let the following be done-


If der is an accident,


yellow flag let be waved ,


giv all the cars two options-


1.align on the starting grid on their respective slots(the positions they were at wen the yellow flag was waved)


2.if u want to take an pit stop take one and que up on the exit of pitlane after their respective pitstops(red light will be on...)


3.After the crashed/stalled car is takn out of the track..let the 5lights illuminate and go-off and let the race start again...


for the people in pits they could come out once the train of cars aligned on the starting grid go off...maybe after 3sec after the 5lights go off..





4.And safety car would only be implemented if the incident took place on the start finish straight itself...


|||1. Rockpool-A red flag in Formula 1 takes at least 15 minutes, because it takes that much time to start the cars again.





2. The whole point to closing pit road was to prevent guys from getting lucky by being near the pit entry when the safety car came out. Unfortunately you can't legislate luck out of the sport (not yet at least). |||I think it's just part of the sport|||The FIA ought to get rid of the pitlane closure rules when SC is deployed. WHat is a car decides not to go in for fuel and then runs dry and stops on track? More clean up to be done eh?





It's unfair that some people have to suffer from a SC period brought on by another driver.