21 Facts About Safety car

Safety car has both orange and green lights mounted on its roof in the form of a light bar.

From 2015, the safety car is not required to wait until all backmarkers have caught back up to the queue.

Safety 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.

The driver of the safety car is accompanied by a co-driver to assist with operations and communications.

Incidents during the first three laps, the safety car has an advantage over the traditional red flag; with a red flag, it would take a minimum of fifteen minutes to restart the race, and the two-hour limit would not start until the cars were ready for a second formation lap.

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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 car driver had placed his car in front of the wrong competitor thus causing part of the field to be one lap down incorrectly.

However, any car which was in the pit entry or pit lane when the safety car was deployed would not incur a penalty.

From 2009 this procedure has been dropped, and replaced by software that calculates where a Safety car is on the track and a minimum lap time it should take the Safety car to get to the pits.

Formula E includes a rule from 2022 onward which states that if the safety car is used in a race, extra time will be added in order to compensate for the missed racing time due to the safety car.

The first pace car was a Stoddard-Dayton driven by Carl G Fisher.

In recent years Chevrolet models have been chosen as the official pace Safety car, owing to the ability for them to be used at both major automobile races at the Speedway .

Pace Safety 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.

The pace Safety car is deployed for debris, collision, or weather reasons.

Since 2000, with one lap to go before going back to green, the pace Safety car pulls off the track in turn one rather than in turn four.

One lap before a green flag, the pace Safety car will shut off its lights to signal drivers to line up double file.

Beneficiary rule states once the safety car is deployed, the first car not on the lead lap will regain a lap.

Bodine will signal that Safety car to pass him through radio contact between NASCAR and that team.

Safety car was an employee at Michigan International Speedway, a sister track of Daytona.

NASCAR subsequently added the use of the second safety car to protect the last jet dryer in other safety car situations.

Safety car caused a crash during the 2008 Dutch Supercar Challenge race at Spa Francorchamps.

The safety car was sent off the track into the Armco safety barrier at great speed.