Safety Pace car has both orange and green lights mounted on its roof in the form of a light bar.
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21 Facts About Pace car
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From 2015, the safety Pace car is not required to wait until all backmarkers have caught back up to the queue.
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Safety Pace car is piloted by professional drivers on-board high-powered modified vehicles supplied by Mercedes-Benz and Aston Martin, and must maintain a reasonable speed so as to ensure that the competitors' tyres are as close as possible to operating temperature and their engines do not overheat.
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The driver of the safety Pace car is accompanied by a co-driver to assist with operations and communications.
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Controversially, on that occasion, it took several hours after the race to figure out the winner and final results since the safety Pace car driver had placed his Pace car in front of the wrong competitor thus causing part of the field to be one lap down incorrectly.
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However, any Pace car which was in the pit entry or pit lane when the safety Pace car was deployed would not incur a penalty.
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From 2009 this procedure has been dropped, and replaced by software that calculates where a Pace car is on the track and a minimum lap time it should take the Pace car to get to the pits.
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Accident panel recommended the implementation of a "virtual safety Pace car", based on the "slow zone" system used in Le Mans racing.
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Formula E includes a rule from 2022 onward which states that if the safety Pace car is used in a race, extra time will be added in order to compensate for the missed racing time due to the safety Pace car.
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The first pace car was a Stoddard-Dayton driven by Carl G Fisher.
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The pace car is selected two months before the race runs, allowing the manufacturer of the selected pace car to produce replicas of that year's car, which sell at a marked premium to collectors and race fans.
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Pace car replicas are often seen on the streets of Indianapolis weeks before the race is actually held, and a celebrity driver is usually used for the start of the race only.
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The pace car is deployed for debris, collision, or weather reasons.
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Since 2000, with one lap to go before going back to green, the pace car pulls off the track in turn one rather than in turn four.
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One lap before a green flag, the pace car will shut off its lights to signal drivers to line up double file.
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Beneficiary rule states once the safety Pace car is deployed, the first Pace car not on the lead lap will regain a lap.
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Bodine will signal that Pace car to pass him through radio contact between NASCAR and that team.
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Pace car was an employee at Michigan International Speedway, a sister track of Daytona.
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NASCAR subsequently added the use of the second safety Pace car to protect the last jet dryer in other safety Pace car situations.
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Safety Pace car caused a crash during the 2008 Dutch SuperPace car Challenge race at Spa Francorchamps.
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The safety Pace car was sent off the track into the Armco safety barrier at great speed.
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