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Moley-10's avatar
2 years ago

Safety Cars

I have had 7 race weekends.  Currently going into the Spanish GP.  On 100% races.  However, I haven't had a single safety car.  I was hoping that the red flags would increase the amount of safety cars so it was closer to real life but it seems to have gone the opposite way.

Anyone else having a lack of safety cars?

I have had a red flag but imagine my disappointment that after 60 odd laps, it retains the race order from the first red flag. 

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  • Yeah I’m the same! Played 2.5 season of 2 player career last game - can’t get even a VSC for any thing unless we bin it.

    This game I’ve got to the Canadian GP on MyTeam. 92 AI. Sim damage. 50% race distances. Increased SC. At least one retirement per event including one from a crash - nothing other than yellow flags ever. 

    So frustrating to have no variation in any of the races I do!

  • ArkaniaDante's avatar
    ArkaniaDante
    2 years ago
    @theassassin096 I think this is mainly an issue because the AI has very little accidents. Sometimes they have retirements but they can usually, from what i've seen, park the car in a safe area so the game doesn't trigger the SC.

    Now I play 2 player co-op with a friend who's not great at the game and he crashes often and that does trigger the SC.

    My conclusion is that if the player(s) drive perfectly and the AI doesn't crash in the middle of the road (which is very rare) then there's no Safety Car. Which is only natural. No accidents=no SC.
  • Yeah I do understand why a lot of my faults don’t produce safety cars (although the virtual Marshals must be incredible) but no VSC is unrealistic. 

    Doesn’t make it any less frustrating though.

  • @Moley-10 I have the same problem. I had no SC or red flag yet and I am in middle of career mode season which sucks because I have had the exact same problem in F1 2020, 2021 surprisingly I haven't had issues in F1 22. And another point is that one of the features of this game is return of red flags but I haven't had single one in almost 40 hours playing. I think it is weirdly dependent on some save files. Because I remember that in F1 2021 in one save file I had absolutely zero SC or VSC and in the other there was one almost every race. But that's just me guessing. Weird...

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