Red Bull were again the class of the field today in qualifying for the Chinese Grand Prix, and somewhat predictably it was Verstappen who took his fifth consecutive pole position of the season. With Perez second, the closest competitor was Fernando Alonso who will start the Grand Prix from third place.
thoughts on this? I would say it should not be reinstated...
To me this seems maybe the only track limit violation which gave an advantage. All the other violations I have seen the drivers clearly lost time, and there was no reason to delete them.
thoughts on this? I would say it should not be reinstated...
Apparently this was the previous lap, his final lap was cancelled under the rule that if you cut the final corner both your current and next lap are voided(as a way of preventing drivers from gaining extra speed by cutting/extending).
They relaxed this rule under the conditions and apparently he was slower down the front straight.
thoughts on this? I would say it should not be reinstated...
To me this seems maybe the only track limit violation which gave an advantage. All the other violations I have seen the drivers clearly lost time, and there was no reason to delete them.
This was the lap before his fastest lap.
I think they were wondering if he had a faster run accross the line to start his fastest lap because of going wide..
Apparently this was the previous lap, his final lap was cancelled under the rule that if you cut the final corner both your current and next lap are voided(as a way of preventing drivers from gaining extra speed by cutting/extending).
They relaxed this rule under the conditions and apparently he was slower down the front straight.
Thanks for sharing this info, makes sense and is the right call.
Good, reasonable discussion about F1 is basically impossible to find anywhere online.
Completely agreed. Smaller group chats are the only way to go to get any kind of objective, healthy discussion. Everything online, no matter the source, devolves to the equivalent of "my dad can kick your dad's arse" level of commentary.
Im OK with Norris time being reinstated. However, Id like to see 'track deletion'-rule implemented the same on every circuit. We had the track limit discussion of where you gain time and where you dont. And they ended up just doing the hard and fast rule of "when you are outside of the white line, you are off the circuit regardless of gain/lost time or what not". The same should be done to deletion of the next lap. If you go over the white line at the exit of the last corner, your next lap gets removed as well.