{"id":382009,"date":"2026-04-16T06:07:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T06:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/382009\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T06:07:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T06:07:14","slug":"ruapuna-pitlane-to-spark-supercars-safety-car-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/382009\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruapuna pitlane to spark Supercars Safety Car change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SUPERCARS is set to make a one-off change to its Safety Car procedure for the inaugural ITM Christchurch Super440.<\/p>\n<p>The narrow nature of the Ruapuna Raceway pitlane has necessitated change, given double-stacking would likely be problematic and potentially dangerous for crews.<\/p>\n<p>Category management is expected to issue a variation to the rules later today, whereby the intention will be for a two-lap Full Course Yellow type of period in response to in-race incidents before the Safety Car is physically deployed.<\/p>\n<p>That would essentially afford competitors a two-lap window to pit, meaning the second car at any given pit bay can wait an extra lap without being punished.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/superstore.v8sleuth.com.au\/products\/v8-sleuth-magazine-issue-3?utm_source=SRBuyButton&amp;utm_medium=website\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/v8sleuth-mag-issue3_1024x1024.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the interim, speeds are to be restricted through the affected section of track, with single-waved yellows applying elsewhere (but not speed limited as per the full FCYs of the past).<\/p>\n<p>Once the two-lap phase is complete, the Safety Car would then make its way onto the track in order to bunch up the pack for a restart.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s worth noting that Race Control is poised to reserve the right to instantly deploy the Safety Car should a serious incident demand such action.<\/p>\n<p>The standard Safety Car procedure will return for Round 5 in Tasmania.<\/p>\n<p>There will be four races across the next three days: a trio of 120km contests followed by a 200-kayer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SUPERCARS is set to make a one-off change to its Safety Car procedure for the inaugural ITM Christchurch&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-382009","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-newzealand","10":"tag-nz","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}