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matticus
Guru
I'm not a rulebook lawyer, so I can't confirm that, but it sounds very believable.
But would it likely have produced a different result? Statistically, a driver is MORE likely to lose the lead at a red flag restart, than a rolling safety car restart.
What I mean by this - did the chosen restart method disadvantage Lewis? Doesn't appear so, to me.
figbat
Slippery scientist
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- South Oxfordshire, UK
Another, overlooked fact is that the race has other positions in it rather than just 1st and 2nd. By allowing only the lapped cars between Lewis and Max to unlap themselves it denies those lapped cars behind Max the opportunity for one more lap of racing. Lapped is lapped, and only the leader determines who Is lapped, not the 2nd place guy. There is not some kind of hierarchy of lapped (other than race position).
matticus
Guru
What did you think about the first lap "incident"?
classic33
Leg End Member
Advantage Hamilton.What did you think about the first lap "incident"?
Joey Shabadoo
My pronouns are "He", "Him" and "buggerlugs"
Grant Fondo
Guru
- Location
- Cheshire
Bad losers Merc .. Toto took a barrister with him. Pillock.
Joey Shabadoo
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Beebo
Firm and Fruity
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- Hexleybeef
American racing does tend to have lots of safety cars used to bunch the field up.
does anyone know why they couldn’t do a virtual safety car. They do seem at bit fairer.
figbat
Slippery scientist
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- South Oxfordshire, UK
They needed the cars bunched up so they get a decent gap in the traffic to clear the crashed car.
ClichéGuevara
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- Kingston upon the River Hull
Mercedes Protest has been dismissed regarding overtaking behind the Safety Car
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cisamcgu
Legendary Member
- Location
- Merseyside-ish
Beebo
Firm and Fruity
- Location
- Hexleybeef
RedBull have won the appeal.
It will be interesting to hear why.
It will be interesting to hear why.
Illaveago
Guru
- Location
- Chippenham,Wiltshire.
If you consider the race as a whole Lewis did a very good job . He stormed past Verstappen off the start. He managed to avoid Max when they went into the corner and maintained his lead . This can be argued over but in taking avoiding action he would have lost pace so he took the easy route . This according to DC should be allowed under the no rules policy . 
Having kept the lead Lewis extended it and Max dropped back . Max pitted and then Lewis did the same . Perez held up Lewis so that Max could close in to 1 second but once Lewis got past he was away again . A safety car allowed Max to change tyres and set off after Lewis once again but after an initial speed advantage couldn't close the gap . This was maintained until another yellow flag the race director decided to change the rules and allowed Max to close up to Lewis on fresher tyres.
The race director said he wanted them to race !
They had been for the past 55 laps !
Having kept the lead Lewis extended it and Max dropped back . Max pitted and then Lewis did the same . Perez held up Lewis so that Max could close in to 1 second but once Lewis got past he was away again . A safety car allowed Max to change tyres and set off after Lewis once again but after an initial speed advantage couldn't close the gap . This was maintained until another yellow flag the race director decided to change the rules and allowed Max to close up to Lewis on fresher tyres.The race director said he wanted them to race !
They had been for the past 55 laps ! Lewis was on tyres which were somewhere near 40 laps old ! Max had pitted for fresh soft tyres . Lewis had a 12 second gap plus 5 other cars between him and Max when the yellow flag came out . The race officials announced one thing which would have meant that cars unlapping themselves would have taken long enough for the positions to remain the same till the end of the race . This was then changed to allow the 5 cars between them to clear off allowing Max to close right up handing the advantage to Max .
