[Porsche-O-Phile]

I've noticed this as a trend in racing in general and think it has less to do with legitimate concern for safety and more to do with making the races interesting. For example, how often did we used to see safety cars in F1? Hardly ever. Now it's virtually every race, making the competition far more interesting since you're going to get the obligatory "bunch up" behind the SC and the restart. Kind of like two (or three, or four) mini-races in one. Is this done deliberately? Yep. I'd bet it is.

But nobody dares call the officials out on it since they'd just respond by saying "you mean you're not concerned about SAFETY!?!?" (oh the horror!)

The reality is that racing can be done safely without a lot of the gimmicky SCs and restarts that are done these days. . .