Stupidity of Safety Car Rules

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Race 3 at Oran Park this afternoon highlights the absolute stupidity of the CAMS implementation of Safety Cars in Australian Motor Sport.

Race 3 is the Australian Production Car Championship - with, as one of its drivers, a Mr. Colin Osborne (although it hasn't been determined exactly which Colin Osborne this is!)

OK - to state from the state I am working of lap time data here - so anyone that was there that can refute this - feel free.

On lap two car #2 (John Houlder) has 'an incident' of some kind and records a 2 min 38.9sec lap - nearly twice the normal lap time for both himself and most other cars in the race. So this lap time puts him WAYYYYY behind everyone else.

On lap 5 the safety car is deployed and brings the field under control (all lap times, with one exception, drop from around 1 min 26's-30's down to 2 min plus laps.

With one exception - Car #2, John Houlder, on lap 3 recorded a 1:23, lap 4 a 1:23, lap 5 (under safety car) a 1:24, lap 6 (green flag racing) his fastest lap of the race a 1:22 and finally a 1:23.

Ummm did I miss something here - but was the purpose of a safety car supposed to be to bring the field under control to allow something to be done on the track - remove a dangerous object (car, driver, debris) which usually required marshalls to be on or close to the track?

So WHY is a car permitted, regardless of HOW far they are behind the main pack, to maintian absolute race pace during this period?

Can anyone explain this to me because the way I see it - not only did car #2, John Houlder, ignore safety car procedures, he very likely put at risk a number of marshalls somewhere around the track.

Of course, with Colin Osborne present in the field (if this is the one that is CAMS President and not the 'other' Colin Osborne) does this negate common sense and throw any safety concerns out the window?