Diesel wrote: ↑26 Sep 2020, 22:02
Racer X wrote: ↑26 Sep 2020, 21:44
Diesel wrote: ↑26 Sep 2020, 20:31
Anyone talking about the fact Red Bull tried to use Alpha Tauri to hold everyone up so they'd miss getting a lap after the restart? How is that legal? Shades of crash-gate if you ask me.
It was suspicious but not enough to be able to say it was some kind of cheating.
It's not allowed on entry to the pitlane, I think Norris got investigated for doing it recently when the team was trying to double stop? I don't see how this was any different, it was a pretty blatant attempt to try and put the cars behind at risk of not making it over the line. There's nothing wrong with Kvyat wanting to create a gap, but he can't do that on the exit of the pit lane and impede all of the drivers behind him. It seems Masi was too busy deleting people's lap times to even notice this
Lewis got a penalty for driving too slowly in the pit lane during a race but both Leclerc and Vettel avoided penalties from driving too slow in quali for in lap and out lap last year. Leaving pit lane in quali is a first come first serve ordeal, and as long as the minimal average lap time is met there shouldn't be an issue, and in this case cars were parked waiting for the green. Mercedes could have put Ham front of the line but they didn't. Mercedes Boys could have easily done the same and tried to create a gap between the car in front. They could have "teamed up" with pink Mercedes and RedBull could have been left out all the same. Truth is AT weren't blocking anyone on a flyer and leaving pitlane exit from a red flag can't be timed as an enforcible out lap. It's a stretch to say RedBull had Alpha Tauri hold up the cars behind. Mercedes just didn't get things right and were flustered. It can happen, no one gets everything right always, even with all their brilliant engineers and strategists. Throw in some random chaos and you can get occasional brainfarts in logic.
Not cookies or chocolate chips. Sorry just had to share this for fellow data scientists.