Models / LightGBM + Hawkes process
Safety Car Probability
P(SC or VSC deployment next lap), session-level.
LightGBM + Hawkes processanalytics.strategy
How it works
A gradient-boosted classifier scores incident risk from track state, lap, field spread, and recent incidents; a Hawkes self-exciting process layers on the post-incident clustering a static classifier misses. A 3-class variant separates full safety car from VSC.
Inputs
- recent incidents
- lap fraction
- field spread
- track status
- rain signal