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I've never liked this "lapped cars can now overtake" business. It is a tricky one but as a basic principle I think all lapped cars should drop to the back of the field EXCEPT cars lapped BECAUSE of the safety car deployment. I don't think this should be too difficult considering the race director and teams all have the driver tracker and telemetry to know where their chaps should be. The 'dropping back' can be safely achieved either off the racing line on track or via use of the pit-lane. Those released after the hazard has been cleared should be given a Delta comparative to a good lap time referenced from the period prior to the SC deployment. We have seen in race-off''s that an F1 car can catch a GT in little over one lap so a good lap should see them up with tail ender's within a lap. I don't know how long that was on Sunday but it seemed longer for Mark to get round. Oh, and blue flags should be vigorously deployed accompanied by compulsory radio calls to back-markers to obey and clear the racing line within two BF's during the first lap of the restart. That's as much help as "unlapping" chaps should get. There has to be some element of chance, after all. As we were reminded in one of the commentaries at the weekend, this is supposed to be the pinnacle of motorsport. It's also the 21st century FFS!
I've never liked this "lapped cars can now overtake" business. It is a tricky one but as a basic principle I think all lapped cars should drop to the back of the field EXCEPT cars lapped BECAUSE of the safety car deployment.
I don't think this should be too difficult considering the race director and teams all have the driver tracker and telemetry to know where their chaps should be. The 'dropping back' can be safely achieved either off the racing line on track or via use of the pit-lane. Those released after the hazard has been cleared should be given a Delta comparative to a good lap time referenced from the period prior to the SC deployment. We have seen in race-off''s that an F1 car can catch a GT in little over one lap so a good lap should see them up with tail ender's within a lap. I don't know how long that was on Sunday but it seemed longer for Mark to get round.
Oh, and blue flags should be vigorously deployed accompanied by compulsory radio calls to back-markers to obey and clear the racing line within two BF's during the first lap of the restart. That's as much help as "unlapping" chaps should get. There has to be some element of chance, after all.
As we were reminded in one of the commentaries at the weekend, this is supposed to be the pinnacle of motorsport. It's also the 21st century FFS!