El Scorchio wrote: ↑07 Sep 2019, 21:20
Oehrly wrote: ↑07 Sep 2019, 21:14
I guess the issue with the Vettel incident is that there are two options based on which to decide.
The tyre is on the line if
- it physically touches the line
- it, when viewed from straight above, blocks part of the view of the line
As the reglement does not specify (or does it?) which of those two is the valid interpretation for deciding in or out, the stewards decided on no penalty. I think that is sort of what they imply by the conflicting camera angles. If both versions of the interpretation give the same result, it is easy. If not, they have a problem.
I guess they might release a technical directive (can you do that for the sporting regs?) and change the rules as soon as they can, to mitigate this issue for the future.
For the rest of the pack and driving unnecessarily slow, the issue might be, where to draw the line. Everybody was sort of involved to a different degree.
Well I’d have thought that even anyone with an iota of sense in the rule making/stewarding setup should realise you’ll never get consistent aerial views at a perfect overhead angle to make these judgement calls based on the ‘view from above’ so it’s completely pointless if the decision is going to be based on a lack of conclusive footage from that angle. Bonkers.
Base it on footage you can obtain easily, like the broadcast or circuit cameras. If there’s an angle on any of them that shows a gap, then that should be that.
check this image - from your point of view, the pilot should have been black flagged for leaving track...
I'm no Vettel fan, but this was quite gray, I think stewards, just like in few instances previously this year, used the gray area in the rules to make the show go on, nothing more, and this case was quite mild compared to other decisions, it is not like he got a pole either, he is behind both mercs, pretty much where he would be in not the cockup with the Q3
image of the pilot leaving the track, according to some here anyway...
