The rules on the Safety Car are changing

The world council reviews the rules on the safety car after the chaos of the Valencia Grand Prix. Limited speed of the cars, lines of the safety car in evidence and greater speed of the marshals.

The general safety rules remain the same, but the Paris meeting decreed several changes.

First of all, the cars cannot have a speed higher than that of the safety car and will have to adapt to the times set by the safety car. Until now it was enough to complete a lap with a time exceeding 120% of the circuit record to stay within the rules.

In Valencia Hamilton was penalized for overtaking the safety car, the Englishman claimed that he had not seen the car and that he was convinced that he had passed the second safety car line, from now on, to avoid oversights, the lines will be marked in a obvious and cameras will frame the specific point.

The provision of cameras on the line that demarcates the safety car is a measure that the federation took after listening to the Valencia commissioners regarding the delays in penalizing the McLaren driver. The stewards claim that they were unable to take action in the right time because they did not have specific images of the place available and could not understand Hamilton's exact position.

The hope is that these "measures" that the FIA ​​has taken will be able to avoid controversial situations in the future, giving us races full of sport and not controversy.

Robert Ferrari