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Safety Car procedure
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Safety Car procedure
Hi all,

In the Liveforspeed.be League we also implemented Safety car rules..

You can say why?? A flipped or stuck car is out of the race..
True and ..not true..
There are a lot of race disciplines where stuck or even flipped cars are helped back on track. Rally is a good example of people putting a flipped car back on the wheels so they can continue.
Example of stuck car in gravel is for example F1. When a car is stuck at a dangerous place the stewards may push it out so the racer can continue the race. Schummi was one of the first to use that rule.

Advantages of implementing a safety car procedure :

1. You keep more cars in the race. The race is not over for that racer but the result is that he is put al least 1 lap behind the pack.
2. More cars in the race means, more action, more fun.
3. A safety car procedure always brings back the action because all racers are again close to each other. Close racing ..more action...more fun
4. The fact that a safety car can be deployed counts in how you handle the race on tactics..

Disadvantages for most leagues is they must have an extra racer waiting to be deployed.. often boring and an extra slot used on the server.

We, on our international Liveforspeed.be league, have resolved those disadvantages !!!

Take a look here an learn :

http://www.liveforspeed.be/ind ... e&id=96&Itemid=96

I can only say we now have a lot more action in our races and racers can stay in the race and collect more experience about the combo. And a SC procedure does not mean you will be last. An other SC moment brings you more and more up front.. making it able to collect some points after all !!
Yeah, uhm..... I believe IGTC use something called Push Car (?) which does exactly same thing (pushe people out of gravel/unflips them)
Quote from DevilDare :Yeah, uhm..... I believe IGTC use something called Push Car (?) which does exactly same thing (pushe people out of gravel/unflips them)

Yes indeed, with more damage don to the car stuck, and sometime unrealistic jumps from both cars hitting other cars again.. And off course the disadvantaged to need a guy willing to play SC driver and extra slot taken.

But indeed with the same result, bringing back more action to the race.
It sounds more like the battenberg flag that was used in the UK for a while. It wasn't used by all clubs, meaning that some drivers were incapable of grasping it, rendering it unpopular with marshals. It's still used in karting though. I don't know what the rules about pitting under battenberg was, although it was used at club level where pit stops weren't common (historics, club Formula Ford and the like).

I guess that is a good compromise for LFS there, until an automated SC system comes along.

Safety Car procedure
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