News Details

Vettel Critical of Virtual Safety Car Procedures, Cites Loopholes in Software

Sebastian Vettel believes there are loopholes drivers are exploiting when it comes to the Virtual Safety Car, with the Scuderia Ferrari driver feeling the software being supplied to the teams needs improving. The German acknowledges everyone is in the same situation when it comes to the system but believes reducing the speed by 40% will be abused by the drivers by shortening the distance they have to run, which could see them driving ‘ridiculous’ lines just to save time. 'It's the same for everyone but the FIA is supplying us with a system that makes us follow a delta time, and everybody has to slow down by, I think, 40%, but I think everybody's aware you can have a faster way to go...
Full Story »
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

FIA hits back after Vettel-criticism: "No idea...

After Sebastian Vettel publicly criticized the Virtual Safety Car concept...
7y ago from GPBlog.com

Vettel: "Everybody exploits the Virtual Safety...

Sebastian Vettel has said that the Virtual Safety Car has become an issue...
7y ago from GPBlog.com

Drivers gaming VSC system, says Vettel, but Whiting...

Sebastian Vettel believes F1's virtual safety car system is being...
7y ago from F1i.com

Vettel: Drivers abusing VSC loophole

Sebastian Vettel has described the implementation of F1's Virtual Safety...
7y ago from PlanetF1.com

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

Experienced engineer Mike O’Gara joins IndyCar as...

IndyCar has announced that Mike O’Gara has joined the series as Vice...

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Popular On GunnersToday.com

Arsenal plotting move to sign 3rd youngest player in...

Arsenal are reportedly preparing a move for Leicester City youngster...
46m ago from SportsKeeda.com

'They will nick it' - Wayne Rooney predicts Premier...

Wayne Rooney has made a confident prediction on who among Manchester City...
1h ago from SportsKeeda.com

Arsenal forward set to miss Manchester City clash due...

Mikel Arteta has confirmed that Bukayo Saka will miss Arsenal's clash...
2h ago from SportsKeeda.com

Erling Haaland makes feelings clear about facing...

Manchester City striker Erling Haaland has admitted that he is looking...
1h ago from SportsKeeda.com

Comments

Hottest News

Cadillac hands Herta four FP1 sessions in 2026

Cadillac has confirmed that test driver Colton... Read More »
57m ago from F1i.com

Red Bull 'blocked' driver transfer to rival F1 team

Former Red Bull F1 advisor Helmut Marko blocked a... Read More »
36m ago from GPFans.com

Recent News


2014 GPToday.com
GPToday.com is not responsible for the news headlines and associated descriptions and images it indexes, the content of externally linked sites or the comments & postings of its users.

This website is unofficial and is not associated in any way with the Formula One group of companies. F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B.V.