The safety car should have come out immediately or the whole straight should have been yellow flagged. Yellow flagging a section of track that goes by in 1 second shouldn't even be an option. It's ridiculous.
100% agree - similar issues have happened before, on the start-finish straight, and the pace car has taken them through the pits, bypassing the track while it was cleaned up.
@@longsleevethong1457 That's not true. Haas isn't even worth 1 billion. Williams is worth almost nothing. Alpine is worth however much Ocon and Gasly have in their pockets on any given day. McLaren, Ferrari, and RB/RBR are the teams that are really worth money.
Its really simple!!!! Max saw the double yellow flags and lifted, Norris had more time to see the yellow flags, wasn't paying attention, didn't see them and didn't lift on a fast part of the track! he was too busy trying to catch Max. That's dangerous driving, the rule book says 10 sec stop and go. SIMPLE!!!! If it was Max you wouldn't have a problem with the penalty! But oh no! we cant have an English driver getting a penalty! Its pathetic. I'm fed up with F1 commentators, they are mostly English and biased towards English drivers. Their job is to commentate impartially. Qualifying was the same, Max slowed on the out lap because the car in front of him slowed and he wanted to keep the same distance for his hot lap, Russell wasn't paying attention and nearly ran into the back of him! There is a big difference between driving round a track fast and driving fast while taking in and reacting to what's going on around you at the same time. Something Russell and Norris seem incapable of.
Bring a guy in because money, find out he is an autocrat. Let's see what happens when he gets the ethics committee voted out on December 13th, or not. Oh and the auditors too? This president wants no supervision, no accountability F1 should ditch FIA altogether...
Thats a classic in the world, when you have that much money, they are used to that they can do anything they want. Let's see if fia and formel 1 get in the right frame of mind again.
1) It would have been possible to throw a VSC and have a marshal nip out and pick up the complete wing-mirror while it was intact. Once somebody hits it (like Valterri) it instanly shatter and throws shards of all sorts everywhere. 2) Those double waved yellows were almost impossible to see - judging by the TV footage. In a dark sky race if they are going to continue using flags, they need some way to illuminate them by the marshal. Otherwise, the marshal themselves needs an illuminated board they can hang out. 3) There is a lack of trusting the stewards by having an inflexible rule book. With the confused marshaling they needed to be able to say "this only warrants a 5-second penalty" or "look at it after the race". Yes, Max saw the flags and Lando didnt but a 10-sec stop and go was OTT. 4) The one place grid drop for Max was an oddity. What was that about? In the end it only sought to motivate Max even more and whatever advantage George might have thought he was angling for, was gone PDQ. 5) Overall there seems to be a lack of consistency with rules and application in a number of recent races. This refelects badly on the sport. Yes, Max (and others in the past) have pushed the rules to the limit because if you dont, you are leaving time on the table for somebody else to pick up. Quite often that looks poor form too (dash it, its just not British) but the authorities do what they've done previously. Change the rules. But apply the equally!!
I started watching F1 religiously from the start of this season, every practice, qualifying ,Sprint and Race...And I have no idea how the rules work as they seem to change every weekend 😂
Ben the kn obbb-end is destroying F1! When is he going to get fired? F1 has been a joke since the debacle of 2021 when a driver was awarded a world title rather than being forced to win it!
@@stevejh69 it started way before that in 2015 when the rules & sporting codes were ignored to help create exciting racing, though they did tighten up a little after the entire grid said they feared for their lives racing against such a dangerous driver. But even moving the sport code into the rulebook hasn't stopped that dangerous behaviour. But your 100% right about Ben d Rules, he is a 🔔🔚
Problem is that fia would shut down talents getting to the f1 with super licens. If f1 wanted to go solo, it needed the whole support series under them too.
@@stevenriechert Yes I read about that. I am hoping Carmelo Ezpeleta and his team are well aware of what is going on and that they won't let it get to that point. Also the top riders won't go for that.
Yeah in this case stewards were actually consistent for once, it just seems shockingly harsh to viewers because we haven't seen it happen in a while. But Mazepin ignored double yellow in 2021 Austrian GP and got the same: 10 seconds stop and go. Same for Räikkönen in 2017 at Spa. It also doesn't matter if there's a serious incident ahead or not, ignoring double yellows are always punished this severe.
The lack of clarity has been going on since the V8 era to be fair. A number of figures in the sport contributed to this contiuous behavior. Drivers cutting corners, hitting each other, cutting pitlane, teams running illegal car components, some receiving clear favoritism, cheating scandals, the list goes on. Lack of clarity and consistancy is only one reason the viewer base shrunk from 650 million viewers in 2006 down to 275 million by 2017. The viewers have been seeing the bs for a long time and now the drivers are finally starting to find their voices too. The sport needs a hard reset to get itself right. Regs, leadership, points structure, the technology, it all needs to be rethought.
This is all going wrong. Race weekends are now as much about the F.I.A as the racing. They need to remember that they are administrators not the stars.
I hope you'll learn the lessons. Before Qatar events, I always knew some want Canceled the Race, in any counterparts like F2 and F1 Academy (Women Drivers), which was why any pointless politics! Not only Human Rights or too, but this beyond a scandals party and crashgate, and so forth! You do remember a first night race of disaster in 2008 Singapore, right? This was WE'RE all get!
I don't have a problem with stop/go penalty, what I have problem with its their safety car deployment. How can they called it so late when debris at straight line track where the only place they do overtake, I know they were not in racing line but its where driver can overtake others with DRS. Were they want to yellow flag it for the rest of race if Valteri never run it over or Sainz and Lewis didn't get punctured? It mean no overtake for rest of race then. I must say they rather clean the mess up than prevent the mess up
The stewardship and race directorship of F1 has been awful for years, inconsistent, slow to make decisions, and tbh unsafe. Any local race circuit marshal rolls their eyes or yells at the screen every time these political appointees try and keep the best racers in the world safe.
In my opinion, a Safety Car should have been deployed once the mirror jumped off... the butterfly effect cause a massive disruption in the race for so many. Even if the Drivers' Championship is closed (congratulations Max, it was well earned!), I was enjoying Lando and Max's race and was waiting for the overtaking moves... then the Stop and Go penalty ruined it. And let's not even get started on the punctures; it seriously harmed the race and even the Constructors' Championship with the punctures for Ferrari... not to mention it could have caused a much worse accident. Safety, people... this isn't 80's F1 anymore.
I "watched" this video twice. The first time, I was just listening to it while I was taking care of some business. A couple lines caught my attention, and sure enough, I was proven correct. You slapped footage of Max up there. Passive aggressive!! I realize most F1 pundits and content creators are like the FIA and believe that if you are not British you deserve the short end of the stick. I have seen just as much aggressive driving from all the drivers on the grid. You do not get to this level without talent and a killer competitive streak! Is there problems in the FIA, I believe so, but screaming for people to be dismissed is not going to fix the issue
All the drivers will point out an infraction particularly when it cost them time with Russell he created a problem by his fake maneuvering so to penalize in this case Max. All drivers and teams will point out infractions or possible infractions even if it’s a stretch. On the other hand I have never seen anyone create a problem when there wasn’t one just to incur a penalty on there opponents but maybe where you live this is a normal thing.
The FIA has become a joke, I think they top guy thinks it’s a scalextric game 🤷🏻♂️ he has no clue about sportsman ship and racing standards, FIA has become one big joke 😩
I dont want to go around spreading rumours, BUT I'm good with half-truths, conjecture, and straight out BS. About 30 minutes ago, I *_THINK_* I may have, out of the corner of my eye, seen the thumbnail for a video with Toto standing up for Muhammad Ben Laden I was leaving that page, so I barely saw it. And I haven't been able to find it again, but I think my luck will change as soon as I actually start looking for it 😂.
F1 is a total joke, driver given a world title in 2021, inconsistent penalties, dangerous driving, childish behaviour if they don’t get there own way and finally all races staged with team orders. And sanitised, Long gone are the days when the drivers had to race to win
There was a double yellow waiving and a green light immediately behind the yellows..so which is it..Norris would have had to gone under pace for the entire length of the front stretch which would have allowed max to open up a gap..it’s clear what’s going on in the back channels..the F1 needs full time stewards
Maybe you could read the rule book instead of making up conspiracy theories. The yellow was for a section of the track (between yellow stations) which ends at a green flag (always) so Norris should have lifted for that section and resumed full speed after the green. Max lifted through the section but Norris did not so Norris gained by 0.6. This rule is one of the clearest but Norris simply ignored it hence the penalty.
GPDA, question you say you denounce all form of discrimination, I would say MAX gets more form of discrimination and yet we see no push back, no knee taken, nothing what gives.
first time 3 English race drivers get penalty and boom ....they attack FIA :P All this about George cry...... :P You all forget that Max same race track didn't slow and get penalty 5 place, even Max remember that...so this time Max slow :P
Tell the Sultan that his drive to make money and sanewash countries with vile human rights records means nothing. Go home and have your servants count your money for you.
Sorry, this is very unfair to the stewards and race controller. ... Even with so many cameras, the commentators only noticed the debris just a few seconds before cars ran over it. ... The race controller gets signals from the marshals, and the marshals report the level of risk … Don't forget the race controller also has to prioritise race continuity and minimise stoppages. ... We the fans, and even this UA-cam channel, many times we criticise race controllers for too many safety cars etc ruining the race. We can't have it both ways. … Finally, the danger was not as high as you say. This was debris, not a crashed car parked on a corner, and there are a huge number of races where fibreglass on the track was not a reason for halting the proceedings. ... Just saying, the safety, the support vehicles, the marshals, the stewards, the race controller, they are all brilliant in an extremely difficult job of monitoring 6 km of road in real-time and making decisions in sometimes mere seconds. Let's give them a bit of slack and a bit of love 👍❤
Can’t really agree with all you comment. The mirror was mentioned by the commentators at least two laps before the safety car was brought out … nearly 4 minutes. It’s the RD’s decision on when debris can be left or removed - it should have been obvious that it could have caused punctures - which it did - on the fastest part of the track. It was poor decision making by the RD. The Abu Dhabi 2021 debacle was caused by trying to get the SC off the track and to return to finish under green. Sticking to procedure would have been a better outcome. Whatever is decided how to handle these situations, it must be implemented consistently. Even if it interferes with the last 2 laps of the race. Another example was Japan 2022? when it pelted down with rain with only a few laps to go. Rather than finish the race under SC, the cars were left on track, with zero visibility and a 10 tonne crane as well that Gasly almost crashed into. Just be consistent, trying to ‘not interfere’ with the race actually has the opposite effect. If an SC is needed, use it.
That 10 second stop and go would have been used multiple times but never did...was it harsh yup I think so no matter who would have done it, for this way too harsh...but yup all the #33**** fanboys are screaming...but it's time for the drivers to drive and not whine over the radio it isn't kindergarten....
Oh look. Another AI generated video jumping on the F1 bandwagon. If Max was given the same penalty, you wouldn’t be bothered at all. But oh no, not a penalty for a British driver! Surely that can’t be happening!!
Sad to say but I'm starting to miss the days of Max Mosley & Bernie Ecclestone.
These guys make Bernie look like a saint!
Who knew that a couple of actual fascists would turn out to be the good guys.
@@MoominDoogiebecause Bernie is.
Lol charlie too
Not forgetting Race Director Charlie Whiting most of all.
Ben Salem has to go! Talk about corruption!
f1 should just run itself and omit the fia at this point
I like your thinking, but there is a major problem with it. You're not taking into account the fact that Liberty are just as corrupt.
The safety car should have come out immediately or the whole straight should have been yellow flagged. Yellow flagging a section of track that goes by in 1 second shouldn't even be an option. It's ridiculous.
100% agree - similar issues have happened before, on the start-finish straight, and the pace car has taken them through the pits, bypassing the track while it was cleaned up.
One lap virtual safetycar thru pitlane pick up the mirror and continue
It was an absolute FIA-sco !
Ahh i see what you did there 😂😂
This is what you get if a Alibaba and his robbers are directing a multi million business.
so who are his board of directors? also Europeans
He runs FIA, not Liberty Media.
It’s multi-billion. Each team has a 20+ billion worth
@@longsleevethong1457
Way overvalued estimate of team values. No single team is valued above $5 BILLION DOLLARS.
@@longsleevethong1457 That's not true. Haas isn't even worth 1 billion. Williams is worth almost nothing. Alpine is worth however much Ocon and Gasly have in their pockets on any given day. McLaren, Ferrari, and RB/RBR are the teams that are really worth money.
Its really simple!!!! Max saw the double yellow flags and lifted, Norris had more time to see the yellow flags, wasn't paying attention, didn't see them and didn't lift on a fast part of the track! he was too busy trying to catch Max. That's dangerous driving, the rule book says 10 sec stop and go. SIMPLE!!!! If it was Max you wouldn't have a problem with the penalty! But oh no! we cant have an English driver getting a penalty! Its pathetic. I'm fed up with F1 commentators, they are mostly English and biased towards English drivers. Their job is to commentate impartially. Qualifying was the same, Max slowed on the out lap because the car in front of him slowed and he wanted to keep the same distance for his hot lap, Russell wasn't paying attention and nearly ran into the back of him! There is a big difference between driving round a track fast and driving fast while taking in and reacting to what's going on around you at the same time. Something Russell and Norris seem incapable of.
He didn't see the yellow because he was scratching his haemorrhoids 😮
Who was the first on the radio whining ? Yup your favo Max....
@@HomeOfMacWoeffiein that sense you wouldn’t complain if you saw someone was stealing stuff at your home? You make no sense mate
I think everyone has had it with the homers (including SKY) going ape whenever Max shows up one of their drivers as just being average.
One hundred percent correct max always being bashed
If FIA Failed they have to pay the teams.
Bring a guy in because money, find out he is an autocrat.
Let's see what happens when he gets the ethics committee voted out on December 13th, or not. Oh and the auditors too?
This president wants no supervision, no accountability
F1 should ditch FIA altogether...
Thats a classic in the world, when you have that much money, they are used to that they can do anything they want. Let's see if fia and formel 1 get in the right frame of mind again.
Valtteri did it on purpose, and he's still laughing.
Slayem has done more damage than the guy with the suitcase did to Pan Am Flight 103.
With the same intent.
Get rid of Mustafa already.
Why? It would be much better to get rid of Mohammed Ben Sulayem.
F1 volunteers to place itself under the FIA..get rid of the FIA
mbs needs to be in jail
1) It would have been possible to throw a VSC and have a marshal nip out and pick up the complete wing-mirror while it was intact. Once somebody hits it (like Valterri) it instanly shatter and throws shards of all sorts everywhere.
2) Those double waved yellows were almost impossible to see - judging by the TV footage. In a dark sky race if they are going to continue using flags, they need some way to illuminate them by the marshal. Otherwise, the marshal themselves needs an illuminated board they can hang out.
3) There is a lack of trusting the stewards by having an inflexible rule book. With the confused marshaling they needed to be able to say "this only warrants a 5-second penalty" or "look at it after the race". Yes, Max saw the flags and Lando didnt but a 10-sec stop and go was OTT.
4) The one place grid drop for Max was an oddity. What was that about? In the end it only sought to motivate Max even more and whatever advantage George might have thought he was angling for, was gone PDQ.
5) Overall there seems to be a lack of consistency with rules and application in a number of recent races. This refelects badly on the sport. Yes, Max (and others in the past) have pushed the rules to the limit because if you dont, you are leaving time on the table for somebody else to pick up. Quite often that looks poor form too (dash it, its just not British) but the authorities do what they've done previously. Change the rules. But apply the equally!!
I started watching F1 religiously from the start of this season, every practice, qualifying ,Sprint and Race...And I have no idea how the rules work as they seem to change every weekend 😂
The F1 should tell the FIA to f*** off, as the inconsistency and bad decision making go from bad to way worse.
Big money equals big corruption...
Ben the kn obbb-end is destroying F1! When is he going to get fired?
F1 has been a joke since the debacle of 2021 when a driver was awarded a world title rather than being forced to win it!
@@stevejh69 it started way before that in 2015 when the rules & sporting codes were ignored to help create exciting racing, though they did tighten up a little after the entire grid said they feared for their lives racing against such a dangerous driver. But even moving the sport code into the rulebook hasn't stopped that dangerous behaviour.
But your 100% right about Ben d Rules, he is a 🔔🔚
Why does F1 have to deal with FIA.. can't it just go it's own way?
Problem is that fia would shut down talents getting to the f1 with super licens. If f1 wanted to go solo, it needed the whole support series under them too.
Time to learn who the FIA are?
Damage is already done, F1 ain't worth watching now, for most tracks you know the finishing lineup after the first lap.
The FIA granted Stroll a super licence. Enough said lol
Cancel FIA NAO!
It looks that he takes part of getting Ferrari to reach the constructor champion ship with insane penalties... Get him some pedal on his Camel!
The drivers have zero grounds to threaten anything...
They are clearly lost in their own sauce and arrogance. Try looking to MotoGP for a more positive approach.
The bad news is Liberty Media are trying to buy Moto GP .If they do say goodbye to fair racing and hello to manipulation
@@stevenriechert Yes I read about that. I am hoping Carmelo Ezpeleta and his team are well aware of what is going on and that they won't let it get to that point. Also the top riders won't go for that.
10 seconds stop and go is a perfect punishment.
All he had to do was lift. The driver in front of him lifted.
As if you know what is going on with the driver..!!!
@MrSimonyong I know he didn't lift.
simpleton. even verstapen said the yellow lasted for a mere second. easy to miss, but u surely would've seen it with your superhero eyes
@nostraoffice1486 watch the in car footage, it's there. He's a professional driver in the highest level of auto racing, stop making excuses
Yeah in this case stewards were actually consistent for once, it just seems shockingly harsh to viewers because we haven't seen it happen in a while. But Mazepin ignored double yellow in 2021 Austrian GP and got the same: 10 seconds stop and go. Same for Räikkönen in 2017 at Spa. It also doesn't matter if there's a serious incident ahead or not, ignoring double yellows are always punished this severe.
The lack of clarity has been going on since the V8 era to be fair. A number of figures in the sport contributed to this contiuous behavior. Drivers cutting corners, hitting each other, cutting pitlane, teams running illegal car components, some receiving clear favoritism, cheating scandals, the list goes on. Lack of clarity and consistancy is only one reason the viewer base shrunk from 650 million viewers in 2006 down to 275 million by 2017.
The viewers have been seeing the bs for a long time and now the drivers are finally starting to find their voices too. The sport needs a hard reset to get itself right. Regs, leadership, points structure, the technology, it all needs to be rethought.
Install AI..get rid of the stewards and make that rules are fair..without any bias..
Maybe involve elon..🙃😉
This is all going wrong. Race weekends are now as much about the F.I.A as the racing. They need to remember that they are administrators not the stars.
I hope you'll learn the lessons. Before Qatar events, I always knew some want Canceled the Race, in any counterparts like F2 and F1 Academy (Women Drivers), which was why any pointless politics! Not only Human Rights or too, but this beyond a scandals party and crashgate, and so forth! You do remember a first night race of disaster in 2008 Singapore, right? This was WE'RE all get!
It’s all about the money
"...the head of the FIA, Moham..." GUILTY!
I don't have a problem with stop/go penalty, what I have problem with its their safety car deployment. How can they called it so late when debris at straight line track where the only place they do overtake, I know they were not in racing line but its where driver can overtake others with DRS. Were they want to yellow flag it for the rest of race if Valteri never run it over or Sainz and Lewis didn't get punctured? It mean no overtake for rest of race then.
I must say they rather clean the mess up than prevent the mess up
The stewardship and race directorship of F1 has been awful for years, inconsistent, slow to make decisions, and tbh unsafe. Any local race circuit marshal rolls their eyes or yells at the screen every time these political appointees try and keep the best racers in the world safe.
In my opinion, a Safety Car should have been deployed once the mirror jumped off... the butterfly effect cause a massive disruption in the race for so many. Even if the Drivers' Championship is closed (congratulations Max, it was well earned!), I was enjoying Lando and Max's race and was waiting for the overtaking moves... then the Stop and Go penalty ruined it. And let's not even get started on the punctures; it seriously harmed the race and even the Constructors' Championship with the punctures for Ferrari... not to mention it could have caused a much worse accident. Safety, people... this isn't 80's F1 anymore.
Ben must go 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Russell comes across as being a bit of a creep while Max is a straight shooter.
The FIA is esoteric and convoluted, there will not be an easy solution.
Still ROTFLMAO over how close the sport came to having Max awarded his WDC by the stewards again.
I "watched" this video twice. The first time, I was just listening to it while I was taking care of some business. A couple lines caught my attention, and sure enough, I was proven correct. You slapped footage of Max up there. Passive aggressive!!
I realize most F1 pundits and content creators are like the FIA and believe that if you are not British you deserve the short end of the stick. I have seen just as much aggressive driving from all the drivers on the grid. You do not get to this level without talent and a killer competitive streak!
Is there problems in the FIA, I believe so, but screaming for people to be dismissed is not going to fix the issue
I have a feeling this may be going to the court of arbitration for sport. All sports can go for the final ruling AKA supreme Court
All the drivers will point out an infraction particularly when it cost them time with Russell he created a problem by his fake maneuvering so to penalize in this case Max. All drivers and teams will point out infractions or possible infractions even if it’s a stretch. On the other hand I have never seen anyone create a problem when there wasn’t one just to incur a penalty on there opponents but maybe where you live this is a normal thing.
Next sharia to be applied in F1, instead of cash penalties
The FIA has become a joke, I think they top guy thinks it’s a scalextric game 🤷🏻♂️ he has no clue about sportsman ship and racing standards, FIA has become one big joke 😩
I dont want to go around spreading rumours, BUT I'm good with half-truths, conjecture, and straight out BS.
About 30 minutes ago, I *_THINK_* I may have, out of the corner of my eye, seen the thumbnail for a video with Toto standing up for Muhammad Ben Laden
I was leaving that page, so I barely saw it.
And I haven't been able to find it again, but I think my luck will change as soon as I actually start looking for it 😂.
F1 is a total joke, driver given a world title in 2021, inconsistent penalties, dangerous driving, childish behaviour if they don’t get there own way and finally all races staged with team orders. And sanitised, Long gone are the days when the drivers had to race to win
There was a double yellow waiving and a green light immediately behind the yellows..so which is it..Norris would have had to gone under pace for the entire length of the front stretch which would have allowed max to open up a gap..it’s clear what’s going on in the back channels..the F1 needs full time stewards
Maybe you could read the rule book instead of making up conspiracy theories.
The yellow was for a section of the track (between yellow stations) which ends at a green flag (always) so Norris should have lifted for that section and resumed full speed after the green.
Max lifted through the section but Norris did not so Norris gained by 0.6.
This rule is one of the clearest but Norris simply ignored it hence the penalty.
@@JerryWalker0010.6 sec gained 😂 you must be a perfectionist.
Are you sure the France family isn't running the FIA ???!!
This mob couldn’t run a jumble sale
Get rid of the FIA dictator, and transparency will return to normality!!
Bring Back MICHAEL MASI
GPDA, question you say you denounce all form of discrimination, I would say MAX gets more form of discrimination and yet we see no push back, no knee taken, nothing what gives.
LH became a typical type person of his hue when he claimed he experienced Ray scisms in F1. LH is a narcissist.
Leave the FIA and start anew series somewhere else called F1
first time 3 English race drivers get penalty and boom ....they attack FIA :P
All this about George cry...... :P
You all forget that Max same race track didn't slow and get penalty 5 place, even Max remember that...so this time Max slow :P
George. Get in the car and try to win. That's all you've got to do. You're not "the governing body". 🤫
Also there was 19 seconds gap betveen Mag and Hul plenty of time to send someone to take the mirror away even without safetycar.
19 seconds is not enough time for a person to run out into the middle of the traack safely lol, still ridiculous they didnt just call a VSC
19's not for a person. They'd need 45-60 to be cautiously safe. They could use robotics to recover debris quickly however...
Get this oil Baron Out of F1 F1 belongs under European control period
New scandal where?
F1 is lucky that this race coming up isn't a title decider with all the shenanigans with the FIA.
Tell the Sultan that his drive to make money and sanewash countries with vile human rights records means nothing. Go home and have your servants count your money for you.
Fire the President. Things will then get back to normal..Obvious…
Curruption is running f1
Worse than if Starmer and co. were in charge.
F1 Fanatics? But not enough to use an actual human being for the commentary it seems. Bye!! 👎👎
Sorry, this is very unfair to the stewards and race controller. ... Even with so many cameras, the commentators only noticed the debris just a few seconds before cars ran over it. ... The race controller gets signals from the marshals, and the marshals report the level of risk … Don't forget the race controller also has to prioritise race continuity and minimise stoppages. ... We the fans, and even this UA-cam channel, many times we criticise race controllers for too many safety cars etc ruining the race. We can't have it both ways. … Finally, the danger was not as high as you say. This was debris, not a crashed car parked on a corner, and there are a huge number of races where fibreglass on the track was not a reason for halting the proceedings. ... Just saying, the safety, the support vehicles, the marshals, the stewards, the race controller, they are all brilliant in an extremely difficult job of monitoring 6 km of road in real-time and making decisions in sometimes mere seconds. Let's give them a bit of slack and a bit of love 👍❤
Can’t really agree with all you comment. The mirror was mentioned by the commentators at least two laps before the safety car was brought out … nearly 4 minutes.
It’s the RD’s decision on when debris can be left or removed - it should have been obvious that it could have caused punctures - which it did - on the fastest part of the track.
It was poor decision making by the RD.
The Abu Dhabi 2021 debacle was caused by trying to get the SC off the track and to return to finish under green. Sticking to procedure would have been a better outcome.
Whatever is decided how to handle these situations, it must be implemented consistently. Even if it interferes with the last 2 laps of the race.
Another example was Japan 2022? when it pelted down with rain with only a few laps to go. Rather than finish the race under SC, the cars were left on track, with zero visibility and a 10 tonne crane as well that Gasly almost crashed into.
Just be consistent, trying to ‘not interfere’ with the race actually has the opposite effect. If an SC is needed, use it.
That 10 second stop and go would have been used multiple times but never did...was it harsh yup I think so no matter who would have done it, for this way too harsh...but yup all the #33**** fanboys are screaming...but it's time for the drivers to drive and not whine over the radio it isn't kindergarten....
Oh look. Another AI generated video jumping on the F1 bandwagon. If Max was given the same penalty, you wouldn’t be bothered at all. But oh no, not a penalty for a British driver! Surely that can’t be happening!!