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From what I remember of the rules (someone more enlightened than me might correct me), if a race is red flagged and is then restarted, it is restarted with the order at the start of the lap when the race was red flagged. I'm guessing this is to settle any arguments of any overtakes when the race is effectively stopped on that lap.
It is, isn't it? Especially on that corner which apparently is lethal to pass on and only a madman would even try
Thats if the race ends under a red flag the results are the previous lap...ahem Abu Dhabi ahem. The FIA said something about all the cars not making it past the Safety Car #2 line and thats why they went back to the starting order. Never heard of that rule before.
It was over the line but nothing will be said. The RB seems very sensitive to damage compared to Leclerc who held on throughout the race with the front end plate missing.Yes, it's something along those lines. Would be impossible to sort out an order in the melee of a crash like that, people making up random places in the chaos before flags went out, etc. So the order is whatever it was on the start of the lap. Or something along those lines. As it was right after the start that means original starting order.
It makes sense I think.
It is, isn't it? Especially on that corner which apparently is lethal to pass on and only a madman would even try
Agree Max was back to his bad old form against Mick. If Mick had got past then he would have been away.
In fairness to Max there were no risks at all taken by Mick. The points were too valuable. And Max took advantage of that.
But there was certainly some "robust defending" there...
What makes that even more special is that is actually Vettels own car he brought. He won that at auction a few years ago because Mansell was his hero. Amazing that he could do that.
2.7 million he paid apparently! He has converted it to run on carbon neutral fuel, developed by Paddy Lowe!
That wasn't bad. Mansell sold his for 4m recently and that one didn't have an engine or transmission in it.
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Redbull and Ferrari have been caught out cheating, or rather exploiting loopholes in the regs! Any wonder Salty Spice has been crying about the proposed changes after the Austrian GP:
Wolff brands Red Bull and Ferrari floors 'a shocker' as FIA rule them illegal after Austrian GP
Sir Lewis Hamilton and George Russel may be brought back into play after the technical directive takes effect in France.
Now I know, exploiting loopholes has been going on for as long as the sport has, but still it doesn’t make it right.
Will be interesting to see the results of the changes from the French GP onwards. Probably too late to make any discernible difference to the Championship, unless of course Redbull and Ferrari end up as bad as Merc where a few races ago.
if you want right then Motorsport is not where you're gona get it. There's not a team in any part of it who isn't looking for or using loopholes, if not outright cheating. Toto's pearl clutching is all for the media.
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Agreed. Exploiting loopholes is entirely fair play and is how things are advanced, until someone figures it out and determines if it's allowable or not. It is categorically not cheating (even if Ferrari in particular have form for it outright).The reason you think it's not right is because it wasn't your team doing it. All these teams pay people big money to read what the rules don't say rather than what they do say and occasionally the loophole gets closed
The 2 that spotted this gap in the rules were clearly thinking differently to the others. It's the same when you've a big change to the rule book and you see each team's interpretation of them.
It'll be interesting to see what that does for Ferrari and Red Bull now and it'd be good to see it being some of the other teams closer to them and leave it more than a 2 horse race.
I will add, Silverstone was
