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Hi all. I've just finished the Singapore GP in the 1st season of my career and I've never had a safety car or VSC. I'm only doing 25% race distance, is this why? Safety car is 'on' in the game settings. 

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I am running at 50% distance and have not seen them either.
Other players have reported seeing safety cars, however it appears to be a rare occurrence. 

Edit: Season 1 up to Sochi

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I'm up to Spain qualy season 1 and I've had 4 safety cars and 3 VSC. 2 SC in Australia (100% race) 1 SC&VSC in Bahrain (50%) 1 SC in China (25% as I hate China) and 1 VSC at Russia (50%) none of them have been my fault to 

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I'm at Monaco, 1st season, 50% races. I had both safety car and VSC in first 2 races but none since. 

I have damage set to simulation - I have a feeling that this setting may have a say in it, but I'm not 100% sure

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Ravey34 said:
I'm at Monaco, 1st season, 50% races. I had both safety car and VSC in first 2 races but none since. 

I have damage set to simulation - I have a feeling that this setting may have a say in it, but I'm not 100% sure
The damage setting may be a factor. I have mine set to Full

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I also have damage set to full. Just seems strange that I've made it to Singapore without anything. Seen plenty of cars spin off in to the gravel too

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Jansell said:
Hi all. I've just finished the Singapore GP in the 1st season of my career and I've never had a safety car or VSC. I'm only doing 25% race distance, is this why? Safety car is 'on' in the game settings. 

I've had at least 5 VSC's I think and I run 25% althou8gh I do run without damage. I'm yet to see a full on Safety car though. It's linked more to damage than race distance though I think.

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System: PS4
Career-Mode
Races: 16
Distance: 100% Races 1-2 / 50% Race 3-4 / 25% Races 5-16
Damage: Full
SC: ZERO
VSC: ZERO
WTH ???

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I ended Season one with 3 SC and 1 or 2 VSC. 25% race, damage set to simulation. The races were very clean, there were  more engines problems, most in Williams, then crashes. With 100% there should be x4 more safety cars I guess.



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In my career iam at japan now, i do 50% races with simulation damage.
i have had 3 sc till now and 6:7 a vsc i guess, i didnt got any in the first 5 races. I also had a sc online.

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I am at Canada right now and I had only 1 safety car in first race. I am doing 50% races with simulation damage. Surisingly every driver finished race in MONACO without crashing! :smile:

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I always run 100% races and i have completed 6 races so far and seen 2 safety cars and 3 vsc. I'm also running with sim damage

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I had two SC and two VSC in four races so far.
BUT........ no comes the bug. During SC in Russia and did pit stop and unfortunately my pit crew is 200 % regarding unsafe release... So I had to wait and let pass about 10 cars..... But the bug is that out of the pits and back on track again I was overtaken by Hulkenberg. I immediately wanted to overtake him but was shown the message to let him pass again because I had to take position behind him... !?!? WTF is that ? He is overtaking me on the track during SC and when I want my position back I get information to stay behind him ???

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I had one SC in Russia and two in Spain. And i've had nany VSC in other races. I'm driving 50% races. Was great, some cars did a stop during de SC and many different strategies.

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The only other thing I can think of then is that I started a career before checking if the safety car option was 'on'. It was 'off' until race 3. 

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I am in legend difficulty 50% races in singapore and saw around 5 safety cars and 2-3 vsc..but i find it quite rare because the ai crash and nothing happens!

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I am in legend difficulty 50% races in singapore and saw around 5 safety cars and 2-3 vsc..but i find it quite rare because the ai crash and nothing happens!

yeah I had another VSC in Singapoer in a race I did earlier on in career mode. Once I'm more used to the game I may try turning damage on and seeing what happens on some races. I don't think I'd have damage turned on at Monaco though given how punishing that track is but certainly anywhere except there and maybe Suzuka I'd be open to running with damage to see if something untowards happens.

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