Poll: Australian Grand Prix 2022, Melbourne - Race 3

[Mr Jack]

Was it latifi that caused all the **** last race last year?

No, that was Masi

 

[sparkymark75]

The new rules mean he CANNOT drive up alongside the car in front at all, like he has the last few races when we have had safety car restarts.

ALL of his car must remain behind the car in front at all times under a safety car situation, untill crossing the start finish line, when racing can resume.

No cars can do sharp braking and acceleration manouveres, so basically saying everyone needs to more or less stay at constant speed behind the safety car.

https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/fia-shuts-down-verstappen-f1-safety-car-restart-tactics-/9739044/

Is it a new rule or clarification of what will and won’t be tolerated? If it’s the latter then why wait until now to enforce it? It’s like they are reacting to what happened at the prior race.

 

[this_is_gav]

Is it a new rule or clarification of what will and won’t be tolerated? If it’s the latter then why wait until now to enforce it? It’s like they are reacting to what happened at the prior race.

New rule basically. There hasn't been a rule about being alongside another car at a restart (as long as you're behind). As I mentioned in the Bahrain thread it's happened in the very distant past, but until Abu Dhabi hasn't been a common occurrence, so no rule was necessary. I'm not sure it's necessary now either, but I suppose it's a safety thing for the cars behind more than the leaders themselves.

Both Hamilton and Verstappen were testing each other in Abu Dhabi, and if those behind had followed suit then we'd likely end up with yellows breeding yellows, American style. It's more to eliminate the second guessing behind (and a Mugello-style crash, which also happened in F2 in Saudi Arabia) than the actual being alongside.

 

[spook2575]

Good morning UK / European folk

 

[Jimbeam3678]

Morning all!

 

[Entai]

Is it a new rule or clarification of what will and won’t be tolerated? If it’s the latter then why wait until now to enforce it? It’s like they are reacting to what happened at the prior race.

As the article clearly states, it is a clarification of a couple of existing rules.

One about not sharp braking or accelerating.

And one about cars must always be in line astern when following the safety car.

The clarification has come about as a few teams commented to the FIA about certain antics that have gone on over the last three races {two this year, one at end of last year) when a certain driver has very clearly NOT followed fully behind the car in front under a safety car period.

Also lots of drivers have been doing sharp braking and accelerating to get heat into tyres, and causing large gaps between following cars instead of all cars being quite close to the one in front and thus the safety car.

 

[Mr Jack]

Looks like the chance of rain has vanished. A beautiful day down under.

 

[spook2575]

Hope alonsos alpine doesn’t breakdown during the race

 

[Tigget]

Morning all.

 

[Tigget]

Sainz out. Perfect start in terms of the constructors. Will mix stuff up.

Imagine Lewis will do well to hold off Perez at the restart.

 

[Mr Jack]

Sainz volunteering hard for second driver status. Terrible weekend for him.

 

[BlizzardX]

Terrible choice of tyre for sainz. The hard take a long time to heat up so why stick them on when the pack is so tight.

 

[spook2575]

Did stroll just pit twice?

 

[Tigget]

Hindsight is 20:20 I suppose. Plus strategy hasn’t exactly been Ferrari’s strong point over the last decade.

 

[Mr Jack]

Ha! Interesting tactics from AM for Stroll, exploiting the letter of the rules on running two tyre compounds.

 

[Tigget]

Did stroll just pit twice?

I assume they’re going to try go all the way.

 

[BlizzardX]

Hindsight is 20:20 I suppose. Plus strategy hasn’t exactly been Ferrari’s strong point over the last decade.

Of course but then the first 2 races has shown how difficult the hard tyre is to warm up and keep warm.

 

[Mr Jack]

Of course but then the first 2 races has shown how difficult the hard tyre is to warm up and keep warm.

His problem was a botched launch not the tyres. Alonso was fine on the same tyre.

 

[Tigget]

Of course but then the first 2 races has shown how difficult the hard tyre is to warm up and keep warm.

It’s just one of those standard calls teams make after poor qualifying. Remember Ferrari decide their strategy with a magic 8 ball . I agree with you, just stick him on fast tyres and see what he can do. But he was just poor regardless.

Perez needs to pass immediately.

 

[BlizzardX]

Hamilton is running slower than Russell. Read that lewis' set up is different and heavier for various research reasons, interesting to see what happens here.