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[onelapdown]

So I was in the bath the other day and I had an idea...

Currently the safety car rules stink. Drivers who would have pitted on a lap when the safety car comes out face the choice of a penalty or running out of fuel, and it disrupts the race no end.

So how about this procedure:

1. When a situation that would currently call for the safety car occurs, the red flag is shown and all cars return to their pits.

2. Once the Clerk of the Course is nearly ready to restart the race, the cars will be formed up in the pitlane in race order, in rows of two.

3. Once the cars are formed up and have engines running, they are then released one at a time by a set of traffic lights which release them at the same time intervals as existed between the cars on the lap before the incident.

4. Any cars which have changed tyres or refuelled before lining up will be released 30 seconds later than they otherwise would have been.

5. The first lap out of the pits is done under a waved yellow flag, i.e. no overtaking until they cross the finish line.

[cap-dude]

How about the old system which worked perfectly, bar one exception. They're running the old system in GP2 right now, and it's 10x better. I mean, the current system needs dumped right now, as it's lost drivers valuable points and positions for doing nothing wrong. The worst case being Germany this year, ugg.

Piquet should never have finished 2nd. Actually Massa should've, and thus won the title
=P

But considering that. What if Lewis was set to win in Brazil, but got pushed back by the crappy safety car rule and thus lost the WDC. There would have been complete out rage. And rightly so.

[Gaz]

So I was in the bath the other day and I had an idea...

Currently the safety car rules stink. Drivers who would have pitted on a lap when the safety car comes out face the choice of a penalty or running out of fuel, and it disrupts the race no end.

So how about this procedure:

1. When a situation that would currently call for the safety car occurs, the red flag is shown and all cars return to their pits.

2. Once the Clerk of the Course is nearly ready to restart the race, the cars will be formed up in the pitlane in race order, in rows of two.

3. Once the cars are formed up and have engines running, they are then released one at a time by a set of traffic lights which release them at the same time intervals as existed between the cars on the lap before the incident.

4. Any cars which have changed tyres or refuelled before lining up will be released 30 seconds later than they otherwise would have been.

5. The first lap out of the pits is done under a waved yellow flag, i.e. no overtaking until they cross the finish line.

seams like a good idea to me i mean you only have to look at S.P and alonso going from 12? to 1st to see the SC breaks races.

Massa pitstop incident also but i still think that might of happened sooner or later