British Grand Prix 2016, Silverstone - Race 10/21

MooMoo444 said:
I'd be surprised if he gets anything severe, it's an outdated rule they introduced back when drivers had to start the race on qualifying fuel and therefore would coast back at snail pace to conserve it.
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It's really not, it may have been introduced then, I don't know, but it's a safety rule. Cars are used to certain closing speeds, when it comes to blocking and safety on track cars going ridiculously slow when you expect something different creates problems, same as break checking. You come out of a corner and the guy behind on a hot lap expects you're flooring it but instead rams into you. Or you see a car half a straight ahead so ignore it as you think it will get to the corner long before you but instead it gets in the way. Same for the guy ahead, you see a guy 2/3rds of the straight behind you but are used to that taking a long time to close so go into the corner and it's a problem.

Minimum lap times are still very useful for preventing slow cars being on track.

if you think back to the last refueling era, everyone fueled for the whole of Q3 and everyone went on hot lap pace till the end, so when everyone was cruising at slow speeds no one was on a hot lap. The rule is more applicable now for safety reasons than it was anything than problems with slow pace after the chequered flag came out.

Even then, reversing in the pitlane by a few inches when there were dozens of people in the pitlane, the session was over and he was the last car back in, Hamilton got hit with a reprimand for something incredibly minor, as have other drivers. It's a rule everyone else followed, why shouldn't he?
 
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In the drivers briefing, they did say they were only looking at corners where you would gain time. Which makes sense to me.
Why punish a mistake that has already costthem time.

Its why we need those harsh kerbs everywhere.
 
leaskovski said:
They did said that 3 corners (can't remember which ones) would get instant deletes. Looks like they were consistent with that ruling, as sky kept on banging on about which corners it was and he did it at one of those corners.
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The corners are Copse, Club and Stowe, I thought K Mag went wide on one of those too, I must have heard wrong.
 
Theres a white line defining the edge of every single inch of every single F1 track. I don't understand why the FIA are so inept at enforcing the rules around crossing them, especially given their almost literal interpretation of some of the other rules (radio ban, etc).

It would be like the Umpire at Wimbledon randomly changing his mind as to weather the base line counts or not.
 
because its nothing like tennis, it isn't made up of lots of individual points.

drivers make mistakes and go wide, you wont them to be further punished for that, even though they've already lost time? mental if you do.

the issue is because things like grass have been removed there's some corners, running wide you gain an advantage and its on those corners they have been looking at this weekend.
which makes total sense.

but the real issue is they've removed grass, gravel etc. which is why those new kerbs are so good.
 
Glaucus said:
drivers make mistakes and go wide, you wont them to be further punished for that, even though they've already lost time? mental if you do.
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Yes, they should be penalised. We didn't see 8 people crash during qualifying at Monaco. The drivers drive to the limit if the track. When that limit is 'theoretical' rather than physical, they push harder.

the issue is because things like grass have been removed there's some corners, running wide you gain an advantage and its on those corners they have been looking at this weekend.
which makes total sense.
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Bull. Luffield alone fly's in the face of that theory. There's grass outside and a wide kerb on it and going wide is definitely an advantage, yet it's completely ignored by the FIA.
 
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