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Old 03-23-2018, 12:55 PM
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The F1 boys are back on track, This year's Formula 1 Safety Car is the GT R. The Sky broadcast team reported that the new safety car is 7 seven seconds a lap faster in Australia than last year's GT S. That's a lot. We'll see if Lewis Hamilton complains about the Safety Car being too slow this year.

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The FI boys are back on track, This year's Formula 1 Safety Car is the GT R. The Sky broadcast team reported that the new safety car is 7 seven seconds a lap faster in Australia than last year's GT S. That's a lot. We'll see if Lewis Hamilton complains about the Safety Car being too slow this year.
I heard that too during practice. Makes sense, as in the Car & Driver VIR Lightning laptimes, the GTS ran a 2:51.0 and the GTR ran a 2:43.4, so 7.6 seconds faster on a long track. That is a very impressive performance gain. On a more typical track with a lap time of 1:30 to 1:40 for a fast car, the GTR would be about 3-4 seconds faster than a GTS, which is a whole lot.
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Bernd Maylander said the new safety car was running about 4-5 seconds faster per lap than last year. But he also said theres a big difference in a safety car and a F1 car. So they must have patience. The safety car is there for safety reasons.
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Originally Posted by okbarnett
Bernd Maylander said the new safety car was running about 4-5 seconds faster per lap than last year. But he also said theres a big difference in a safety car and a F1 car. So they must have patience. The safety car is there for safety reasons.
I thought it was interesting the way he phased it. 1 second per kilometer. Speaking of the Safety Car (and VSC), our friends at Ferrari certainly got a a break today.
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Safety car was a wagon wasn’t it?
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fun ones.
Safety car also has some nice little aero additions over the GTR (canards and gurney flap).

i have a feeling we’ll be seeing those somewhere else soon.
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Safety car was a wagon wasn’t it?

No, that’s the medical car

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