Restart after safety car leaves track?

I was watching the Japanese GP and had this hypthetical scenario. Say cars running first and second are team mates and cars running third and fourth are also team mates ( another team of course). Safety car intervenes. Now, the cars running first and third are the only ones in the driver's title hunt. Would it be possible (legal?) for car two to let the leader move away after the safety car has left thus holding back the others? I know you can't pass until the start/ finish line but is this a loophole? The first car could get quite a few seconds lead from it. Maybe the second driver could say he had a misfire or something. Not that I'm suggesting a team would ever try this!|||FIA sporting regs:





Article 40.7: "Any car being driven unnecessarily slowly, erratically or which is deemed potentially dangerous to other drivers will be reported to the stewards."





Article 40.8: "All competing cars must then form up in line behind the safety car no more than 5 car lengths apart".|||rosbif is right but yet lewis was doing that. going slowly|||It's fair game. BUT, going too slowly may allow the car three to get into the car two's slipstream and overtake heading into turn 1. You have to be careful when resorting to this sort of tactics as it can backfire badly. I think it's best to just go as fast as you can and try to keep up with car one, get some heat into the tyres, let the gap settle, then start holding up car three after a lap or two following the end of safety car period.|||Yeah, I think Rosbif already gave you the answer, you cannot be driving unnecessarily slowly and if you do so the stewards can give you a drive through penalty and there goes your race.


In fact, yesterday, lewis did a little stunt where he came side by side with the pace car and then slowed everybody down by braking too hard, this was done for a short period of time, maybe a few seconds and even so he has been investigated by the stewards. If a driver does that all the others are entitled to get ahead of him without any penalties.|||it is illegal for a car to hold up another, all cars have to be no more than a few car lengths behind the one in front of them, but when the race restarts it is legal for a car to make it difficult to overtake, allowing the leader to stretch the gap.|||Ferrari had done this countless times and so has Mclaren specilly last year wjhen they were fighting with Ferrari. it's simple just drop of the pace and pretend to "fight " for possition.