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woelkchen @lemmy.world

3mo ago

I don't know what changed but English drivers got penalties now

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I can't wait to hear anyone who agrees with the stop/go to explain why this wasn't a time penalty.
And I think the penalty for speeding in the pit lane is usually 5 seconds.
If it's just gonna be a wheel of fortune any time someone does something wrong, it really brings the credibility of the sport into question.
It feels like this was an orchestration to make the next race more interesting.
- Apparently the penalty for speeding in the pit lane increases based on how much over the limit you're going, and apparently the stop/go is the suggested penalty for ignoring double waved yellows (this is what I remember from watching Sky's post-race analysis)
  
  Could be me but I didn't see any double yellows for that mirror. If they would have just cleared the mirror away under vsc or sc straight away all of this could have been prevented.
  I also heard the Lewis thing was because the SC drove through the pits making speeding a bigger offence. Makes sense, sort of.
- And I think the penalty for speeding in the pit lane is usually 5 seconds.
  Usually it doesn't involve following the safety car through the pit lane because the start/finish straight usually is not closed.
  
  If anything I think that causes confusion.
  I can certainly imagine myself thinking "we're behind the safety car, surely we're not speeding through the pits"

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