FIA Defends Aston Martin Safety Car After Formula 1 Drivers Complain It's Too Slow | Carscoops carscoops
Aston Martin is having a bad time in Formula 1. Not only is its race car off the pace, but so is the Safety Car it has proudly put out into the field. The drivers have complained so much that the FIA has been forced to release a statement in its defense.is, of course, not outright speed, but the safety of the drivers, marshals and officials,” the organization wrote.
The speed of the Safety Car is “generally dictated by Race Control, and not limited by the capabilities of the Safety Cars.”down from its theoretical top speed, including bunching up the field, negotiating an incident recovery, or avoiding debris on track. All of which means that the “impact of the speed of the Safety Car on the performance of the cars following is a secondary consideration.”