ispano6 wrote: ↑23 Oct 2022, 03:10
Fia isn't enforcing track limits, it's the stewards and race director. Probably would have caught Masi's eye. Besides, if the time was deleted, Max would have just gone again. Now if they deliberately withheld judgement until after the session so as to not give an opportunity to make another attempt despite there being ample time, that would be an issue as well, though I'm sure that is in effect what people are asking for in retroactively deleting the time after the event has ended. People make mistakes, just like you and anybody else.
It
is the FIA, through their employees sitting in race control who are watching the cars, it's
not the stewards' or the race director's direct responsibility. But that's ultimately beside the point.
(When there's a few police officers enforcing speed limits you wouldn't argue that it's not the police doing it, no?)
If the FIA does their job correctly (i doubt they withheld it deliberately and you yourself call it a mistake at the end) they scrap the lap, Max goes out again and goes through (as you wrote), realistically no other driver had any disadvantage because of this, so removing the lap now would be extremely harsh, as the FIA's track limit enforcement person's miss(take) would penalize one driver massively.
In contrast when Perez got his time removed it was his very last attempt iirc and he had no chance to improve afterwards, so scrapping his time was the fairest solution with only one driver disadvantaged, i think it was Gasly who would have been in Q3.
I checked the images for Max, used the method mentioned previously, and imho he was out, the main issue however is (once again) the lack of consistency and how their method of tracking this is simply inadequate.
edit: swapped out two words
edit2: checked the footage, the image of Zhou which circulated everywhere was from Q1, changed the last paragraph accordingly
