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Originally Posted by Richard Casto
Clearly Max deserves this. It must have been extremely difficult to prevent Daniel from passing him at the end with a constant stream of tears flowing and clouding his vision as he cried about Charlie not telling Romain to move out of the way. 
Richard |
LOL, although we can have our thoughts on the way it was delivered, he does have a point.
With the dirty air problem extending 0.5-1s this year, we probably see more of these situations this year where a to be lapped car is outside the 1s blue flag distance but is within the range of severely influencing the pace of the front runners. When the speed difference is small effectively you won't get passed and get stuck. If this happens earlier in the race your race results can get severely jeopardized.
OTOH I do feel every one is entitled to their own race and increasing the blue flag distance to 2s would be overly harsh.
Perhaps we have to accept that for this year, like the more difficult overtaking, this is a result of the ill conceived rules changes for 2017.