Agreed Dean, but surelly you expect the cars to stop when the drivers change over? In this instance we will stop for couple of seconds longer just to note down the laps and reset the power base before we continue again - consider it a slow pit stop (lasting no more than a minute or so).
We would love to go with Option 3 but unfortunately SSDC can not go on for 6 hours without ending the race before that - all we are doing is playing it safe.