But the interpretation of the rules 100% needs to go. "
You seem to contradict this part in what follows. But yea, they should just not allow anyone going outside the track limits unless that lap is significantly slower than other laps. I really don't understand how they can say "ah, it wasnt much faster, then it's ok". If there would be grass/gravel pits or even walls, there's no way going outside of the track limits would ever be close to as fast as staying on track.
They should just use the same logic. Lap much slower, ok we can accept that. Hard to detect any time loss (or even time gain), just start handing out penalties after it's happened like 3 times. Even better would be just putting grass/gravel outside track limits, but yea, that is less likely to happen.
F1 also has rules on track width and corner turn rate etc. And some track needs to use all of the curbs to stay within those limits.
That's completely fine, as long as the rules are clear. That's not contradictory. "The track limit on this turn is all of the curbs" isn't something that's difficult to interpret.
I don't really care if track limits is white line or curb tbh. As long as it's consistent, no one really has a complaint.
Maybe just monitor corners where there isn't a natural limit to how far they can go (such as turn 4 bahrain) but leave places where a boundary exists (turn 14-15 at australia, wall of champions for example) where you can exceed the limits somewhat, but still have a natural barrier such as grass/gravel. This lets drivers push limits where there is a risk/reward, while not becoming a farce like indycar at COTA.
On April 06 2021 08:42 Lmui wrote: It was too hard to police so they didn't police it at all, resulting in that mess
Oh yes, can't imagine the difficulty of setting up a camera and watching whether the wheels are inside or outside the white lines.. Sounds like an impossible task
On April 06 2021 08:42 Lmui wrote: It was too hard to police so they didn't police it at all, resulting in that mess
Oh yes, can't imagine the difficulty of setting up a camera and watching whether the wheels are inside or outside the white lines.. Sounds like an impossible task
FYI, they already have sensors that can detect whenever a car is outside the white line and thus off the track and it is being in use. Why FIAA is not enforcing it is another
Well that was a qualifying. Verstappen must be kicking himself for that mistake. He would have easily got P1 otherwise. That Red Bull car is very fast. Credit to Perez, he did quite well and probably could have got pole also since he messed up the last corner. I feel bad for Norris too, he was just barely out of bounds but alas it was enough to get his lap deleted.
Bottas in P8. Oof. If Mercedes has actual competition this year, I have a feeling they're going to start regret having Bottas in that second car. He just hasn't had it the last couple years. In 2017 he was almost at Rosberg-level but the last couple years he's just been disappointing. He was a choke artist most of last season and there's been nothing so far to suggest he's changed at all this year.
Ocon beat Alonso by nearly half a second. Stroll beat Vettel by a couple tenths. Though to be fair to both Vettel and Alonso, they are both in new cars and not up fully comfortable versus teammates who are quite comfy in their cars. Gasly and McLaren both still impressing. Williams now appears to be an actual midfield team again at this track. Both Russell and Latifi got through to Q2 and Latifi looked genuinely fast at times. Tsunoda's crash was unfortunate but it was gonna happen at some point, he is a rookie after all.
Congrats to Mazepin for making it through a single session without spinning. I do believe this is actually the first session he hasn't spun in so far. He still had an off because he is Mazepin, but it wasn't a spin for once.
It's probably good it was a wet race. That DRS zone was way too powerful. If it was a dry race it probably would have been pretty dull.
That Bottas/Russell incident was quite the thing. I need to see the onboards but it sure looked like Bottas pushed Russell a bit off track. Bottas before that incident was not performing very well. He was stuck behind Stroll and his pace just wasn't there. It seems like Toto Wolff might be breathing down his neck right now. This is the second race in a row Wolff has radioed him and tried to give him a hurry up.
Perez getting his first taste of the Red Bull second driver curse.
Kimi continuing to be the grim reaper of F1. Every time there's a big crash he just happens to be the person behind it. It was the same with Leclerc, Gio, and Russell last year.
edit: Oh right, and Vettel continues to be cursed. Given he was dealing with multiple mechanical issues and started from the pit lane, he did okay until he had to retire the car. Stroll did pretty decently.
On April 19 2021 09:30 Nixer wrote: If you think come to the conclusion Bottas was at fault for that incident between him and Russell, you need a proper look at it again or new glasses.
Russell was at fault. He's still the future. Unless he somehow manages to get on the bad side of Toto, he'll be in a Merc in the next 2 years. But accidents like the one yesterday don't help him.
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