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Originally Posted by stocktake

Regardless of the other anomalies, a safety car has always bunched the pack up and many times has changed the shape of the race by removing any distance gained by the car in front, There is nothing new about this part of the procedure, sometimes strategies are built around the probability of a safety car event.
All the part time spectators who suddenly shout foul when this happens on the first time they watch the sport need to understand this is part of the complexity of the sport.

Honestly we do understand it but not applied in this particular fashion.