Poll: Bahrain Grand Prix 2021, Sakhir - Race 1/23

[Psycho Ned]

Really fun F2 race, looking an open season as usual. Piastri and Lawson both look decent.

Going to be a bit of bity season with this new format, they don't race again till Monaco in May now!

 

[Mr Jack]

Really fun F2 race, looking an open season as usual. Piastri and Lawson both look decent.

Really impressed by Piastri so far. He was unlucky to get that contact with Dan. Zhou is looking strong too.

 

[Mr Jack]

Guess Seb's bad lap was down to only one of those yellow flags...

Full reasons here.

 

[MissChief]

I can see Hazespin ruining many more qually runs before the end of the season.

 

[this_is_gav]

Guess Seb's bad lap was down to only one of those yellow flags...

Technically he only passed one yellow flag looking at the reason.

It's a bit harsh to penalise someone for ignoring a yellow flag they didn't have and give penalty points.

Drops him behind the two Haas's, though that means he's in prime position to suffer from Mazepin's ineptitude again.

 

[Mr Jack]

Technically he only passed one yellow flag looking at the reason.

It's a bit harsh to penalise someone for ignoring a yellow flag they didn't have and give penalty points.

Yeah, I don't get that. How can he be penalised for a flag that was never shown to him?

 

[this_is_gav]

Is this new? F1's Youtube channel have some live build up to the race.

I'm guessing this will get zapped in the UK in 10 minutes as Sky's coverage starts.

Youtube | F1 LIVE: Bahrain GP Build Up
Linked rather than embedded as F1 don't allow embedding.

 

[andicole0]

This looks like the Sky feed, not the official F1 feed, I suspect it will not show the race.

 

[Mr Jack]

Is this new? F1's Youtube channel have some live build up to the race.

Those have been there for a while, at least last season, I think one or two before that.

 

[this_is_gav]

Ah, I'd not noticed them.

This looks like the Sky feed, not the official F1 feed, I suspect it will not show the race.

It definitely won't show the race, but it's not Sky's feed. Natalie Pinkham was conducting one of the interviews, but I suspect she works for F1 as well as Sky.

 

[Muska]

5 place grid penalty and 3 penalty points seems a bit of a harsh punishment for Seb considering there was no illuminated light panel, no waved double yellows by a marshal either.

I hope Mazepin is not going to be this seasons Maldonado/torpedo!

 

[MissChief]

5 place grid penalty and 3 penalty points seems a bit of a harsh punishment for Seb considering there was no illuminated light panel, no waved double yellows by a marshal either.

I hope Mazepin is not going to be this seasons Maldonado/torpedo!

If there’s any possibility that Seb didn’t see the panels or flags it’s up to the team to notify the driver. I’d really expect some sort of automated system to beep in a drivers ear if they’re approaching a mini sector with a yellow or double yellow.

 

[Flibster]

5 place grid penalty and 3 penalty points seems a bit of a harsh punishment for Seb considering there was no illuminated light panel, no waved double yellows by a marshal either.

I hope Mazepin is not going to be this seasons Maldonado/torpedo!

Just shown it on sky
Yellow light board was flashing, and there would have been a light on his steering wheel too.

 

[Mr Jack]

Just shown it on sky
Yellow light board was flashing, and there would have been a light on his steering wheel too.

Weird. I wonder why the Steward's report says the opposite?

 

[Muska]

I just saw it on sky, I was going to say, I was quoting the stewards report. If it was on track then I guess it’s a slam dunk.
I was questioning the reaction given that the track side was reported as not having reacted yet. 18th to last is perhaps not as damaging as it could have been for him.

 

[PikeyPriest]

Yeah, I don't get that. How can he be penalised for a flag that was never shown to him?

3 penalty points aswell??

Isn’t that more than the unsafe release and driving in the pit lane between max and bottas that led to contact?

I can understand the FIA wanting to be strict on flag following, but to have such a strong punishment when the yellow flags had not been deployed seems heavy handed.

*edit - I haven’t seen the sky footage, so ignore if the lights were deployed in cockpit

 

[Mr Jack]

Isn’t that more than the unsafe release and driving in the pit lane between max and bottas that led to contact?

Same as he got for ramming Lewis twice behind the safety car.

 

[deuse]

N HasaSpin

I like that one

 

[deuse]

5 place grid penalty and 3 penalty points seems a bit of a harsh punishment for Seb considering there was no illuminated light panel, no waved double yellows by a marshal either.

The fia being stupid from the first race.

Perez was last. I hope vettel will finish in the top 10.

 

[this_is_gav]

Just shown it on sky
Yellow light board was flashing, and there would have been a light on his steering wheel too.

If it's the one I saw they showed the yellow sign for Sainz stopped on the exit of turn 8 while Ted was talking over the top about the incident he was punished for (Mazepin stopped at turn 1). I might have missed it, but I don't think they showed a replay of turn 1.