More exciting though! I've no doubt though the teams will be very vocal about changing it back to predictable safety car restarts due to the cost cap. The cost the alpine team just racked up must be eye watering.
Poll: Official 2023 Australian Grand Prix Race Thread - Albert Park, Melbourne - Race 3/23
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More exciting though! I've no doubt though the teams will be very vocal about changing it back to predictable safety car restarts due to the cost cap. The cost the alpine team just racked up must be eye watering.
Soldato
Plus the lost points
Caporegime
I'd blame that on their drivers, tbh. Still no word on whether Gasly is missing next race... who's up to replace him? Doohan? Or would they consider putting a better driver in, could DR get a run out?
Isn't there a sensor tho so should be obvious to stewards?
Caporegime
The sensor is not the sole determiner of whether they're in the box. It's there to detect a jump start not whether they are in the box.
Soldato
Now I like Sainz, and had said he was on one this race. Feel like he's maybe on something else now...
Blasting it as the most unfair penalty ever... He caused some amount of carnage. Even if they did use the time machine and partially undo the mess, he still did it. Just accept it and move on. The sooner we put the end of this race behind us, the better.
Blasting it as the most unfair penalty ever... He caused some amount of carnage. Even if they did use the time machine and partially undo the mess, he still did it. Just accept it and move on. The sooner we put the end of this race behind us, the better.
Sensor primarily detects movement.
Caporegime
He does need to accept and move on but I also think he was pretty hard done by. I don't think he did anything worse than Alonso (or was it Stroll?) hitting Leclerc on lap 1; it's rare for an incident like that to get punished and, with the way the penalties work, he lost an extraordinary number of positions. Normally a 5s costs you between 0 and 2 places; Sainz sucked up a 7 place loss.
Soldato
Just how it goes, this is the pinnacle of motorsport™. /s
FIA need to give themselves a 5 second penalty for today. Whole thing was a pantomime.
FIA need to give themselves a 5 second penalty for today. Whole thing was a pantomime.
Caporegime
They've summoned the AGPC (Australian Grand Prix Corporation) to the Stewards?!?
When has that ever happened before?
When has that ever happened before?
Soldato
Found this a dull GP overall just made a little more interesting by the chaos at the restarts. I always love a red flag or two.
Not sure why people are moaning about a standing restart given it was implemented because it was something fans including people on these boards wanted versus the safety car restarts we used to have.
Love the fact that stewards needed to investigate the FIA's own restart procedure.
Not sure why people are moaning about a standing restart given it was implemented because it was something fans including people on these boards wanted versus the safety car restarts we used to have.
Love the fact that stewards needed to investigate the FIA's own restart procedure.
Caporegime
I'm all for more standing starts. But haven't standing starts been standard for red flags since forever, haven't they? Personally, I'd like the idea for standing starts after Safety Cars to be implemented.
Soldato
We could also have a spinning wheel to decide which drivers can have a power boost, and some sections of road that are lightly oiled at random. That'll spice it up...
Maybe even a standing restart at the end of every lap? That'll give the sport the shot of fun that it needs.
Maybe even a standing restart at the end of every lap? That'll give the sport the shot of fun that it needs.
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Yeah they certainly have been unless its deemed "unsafe" which is only really generally when we've seen tipping down with rain
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