virtual safety cars

A form of virtual safety car — A racing condition where the race steward declares that all race cars must run a similar pace and must not exceed a certain speed, so that they will appear to each follow their own personal imaginary safety car, theoretically maintaining race separations without change, and where they cannot overtake each other.

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noun
  1. pluralplural of virtual safety car
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