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Whiting to act over Virtual Safety Car 'loophole'
The FIA has concluded that the current Virtual Safety Car system can give some drivers an unfair advantage over their rivals during a race. Sebastian Vettel was able to use a VSC period to his advantage in the first race of the season to leapfrog Lewis Hamilton and win the race. However, that was a one-off unique situation. Vettel subsequently lost out under a VSC in the Spanish Grand Prix. Afterwards he complained that there were bigger issues with the system that drivers were routinely able to exploit. "The FIA is supplying us with a system that makes us follow a delta time," he explained. "But I think everybody’s aware you can have a faster way to go under VSC than just...
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