F1 Safety Car & the End of the Race Question

Only race I can think of would be Brasil in 2003. That was one race I missed, but only know about the results. Lots of crashes, rain, and a race that ended a little short, with not all the winners on the podium due to injuries.

I'm unsure of a precise answer for your question though. But that's where I'd look at for recent race incidents.

 

Here are the rules...

SAFETY CAR 164...
l) Each lap completed while the safety car is deployed will be counted as a race lap.
m) If the race is stopped under Article 166 Case C, the safety car will take the chequered flag and all cars able to do so must follow it into the pit lane and into the parc fermé.
n) If the race ends whilst the safety car is deployed it will enter the pit lane at the end of the last lap and the cars will take the chequered flag as normal without overtaking.

So this means that if the safety car is deployed with 7 laps to go(just for example). The laps done behind the safety car will be reduced from the total laps. In case the problem on the track is not solved before the beginning of the final lap, it will enter the pit lane at the end of the last lap and the cars will take the chequered flag as normal without overtaking.