Quote Originally Posted by JohnRW View Post
Once the field ("the field", not "the field under control of the Safety Car", just "the field") has completed lap under FCY, there is no need to "re-grid", as the order of the "last scored lap" is exactly how they will arrive in Pit Lane under a BFA. If a Safety Car is dispatched, there are relatively few circumstances where the field hasn't completed a full lap under FCY by the time the Safety Car would make it back to Pit Lane (illuminated or not) and crosses S/F. No re-grid necessary (ibid).
The steward has 4 options:

1. Original grid
2. Running order on last lap scored
3. Restart from a scoring tape (which implies the last lap scored before the FCY was declared) and would be running order
4. Restart from a lap chart (which implies the last lap scored before the FCY was declared) and would not be running order.

Only one of those options does not require regridding the cars.