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I had a problem during a career mode race in Austria. The safety car was deployed. I was asked not to exceed the Delta time limit and so I had to take it easy on the pedal and the cars ahead weren't going down on their speed and I could not catch them. And even worse the SC stayed on the track for 2 laps and before the cars that were racing lined up, the SC went in and the racing began again, but the cars were not lined up, there was a big difference between the. For example, I was 11s behing the car in front of me and the leaders were waaay ahead.

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Yes this was a bug in F1 2015 from memory so shame to see it happen again a few times this year. I have seen it at Barcelona and Silverstone on PS4 career.

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Yep, the safety car is too fast and sometimes doesn't stay out anywhere near long enough. Worse yet, the other bug where you get a penalty for falling too far back the way aarava did in his Brazil video still hasn't been fixed since 2016. This should've been easy to test, but seeing as they didn't even bother with improving the requirements for bringing out the SC or with allowing lapped cars to unlap themselves, it feels like they didn't put the amount of effort that they should have.

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I had a similar thing in my first career race, I was leading but when there was like 5 laps to go the SC came in and stayed only for 2 laps, the field couldn't line up completely, but I think that was a smart thing from the game, cause we could continue the racing soon and not finish with sc. 

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@ed24 In F1 2015 there wasn't even Safety Car if I remember correctly.
That's correct, I remember it was when F1 2016 was first released that it had this bug.

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I had the safety car out in spa yesterday only problem I encounted was got told by engineer and message popped up to pass car in front as was lapped car but whenpassed it had to give it back for over ta,ing under a safety car when it told is to over take 

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ksells said:
@ed24 In F1 2015 there wasn't even Safety Car if I remember correctly.
That's correct, I remember it was when F1 2016 was first released that it had this bug.
Thanks for the correction!

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this happens too much only way I caught them round china was when they slowed at final hairpin before sc comes in 

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In RL all cars are not always given time to line up either. The goal with the safety car is not to line up the cars - that is a consequence. Its job is to slow down the field as long as there is danger on the track, and to get out of the way as soon as the track is clear. The lining up is actually unfair to the cars that have put distance to cars behind, so the less lining up the better.

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