Originally Posted by Forza Ferrari:
“The problem with the safety car in F1 is that it takes far to long. The delta back to the pits is to slow. The whole deployment is contrived to give the leader a free pit stop. Then it takes ages for the back markers to catch up. At the very least there shouls be a faster delta in unaffected sectors to speed the whole thing up.”
It's a little ironic that Perez is, basically, saying "Us F1 drivers can't be trusted to respect waved yellow's properly so you're going to have to do something else instead".
Yeah, like start black-flagging c**ts who take liberties with waved yellow's, perhaps?
Course, the other thing, there, is that a driver in a mid-field car
is going to advocate the use of the SC as much as possible because it destroys the advantage gained by all the cars in front of him through the race and gives him a better chance of improving his results.
Finally, if they're still intent on doing that thing where the race will be restarted from the grid after every SC, next year, using the SC for
every car recovery would mean that your average F1 race would end up as half a dozen short sprint-races rather than one 2-hour long race.
I'd suggest Perez occupies himself by trying to get all the other drivers to comply with waved yellow's properly, rather than accepting that it's inevitable that drivers will ignore them and demanding alternative precautions instead.
Did occur to me that, rather than having a SC, with modern technology being what it is, it
should be possible to use telemetry to automatically reduce the speed of all the cars on-track from race-control.
In the event of an incident, Charlie could hit a button and it'd slow all the cars smoothly to, say, 50mph and the maximum speed could then be adjusted via a simple dial if weather conditions require it.
That way, all the cars would be slowed down at the same time so there'd be no risk of one driving into the back of another one
and it'd mean that the gaps between each car would remain as they were, which is fairer than what happens with a SC.