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Old 16 Sep 2019, 08:43 (Ref:3928277)   #69
Lukin
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Lukin should be qualifying in the top 10 on the grid
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Originally Posted by Tourer View Post
Yep, that's how it went down. Race Control and the SC didn't stuff up in any way with picking up the leader - Mr Whincup was the leader because the cars in front of him pitted when the SC was called, meaning that Mr Whincup passed them whilst they were in the pit lane.

The error that Race Control DID make was not trusting themselves and the information that they had at hand in a pressured situation once the leader ignored the yellow lights on the SC and drove past it. Race Control should have re-started the race and then penalised Mr Whincup, maybe even DQed him due to this being a repeat offence.

The mistake made was sending the other cars past the SC - that is what screwed up the result.
I disagree.

My read on it was that at the time the SC was deployed onto the circuit SVG/SM were the leaders and JW/LH were a pit stop and 10s behind.

‪I don’t think there was ever an ‘incorrect order’. The SC came out and slowed the cars that had already stopped (JW,LH etc). This allowed those who hadn’t stopped (SVG,SM) to get in and out without losing position. ‬

‪Ideally JW/LH should have been waived through and beaten SVG/SM out of the pits on account of lower first stop time.‬

Once the SC slowed down JW/LH it was effectively all over for them. SVG and SM were getting a full load of fuel and track position. ‪There was nothing that could be done to alleviate the time lost by JW/LH once the field was all under control.
‬When the SC had the field under control it had JW first (due to passing the SC), SM, SVG etc and LH around 10th. That was the order as LH got held up so long.

The argument that JW passing the SC ruined it for LH etc isn’t valid, they were already screwed. They couldn’t exactly estimate the time loss for JW/LH and where SVG/SM would have rejoined based on fuel time and position the lap before the SC?‬ You can’t at that point, you would be putting them into an order that never existed and is at odds with the timing.
The only time you ever see them change the order is due a red flag (they can go back a lap) or if half the field misses the chicane (they go to the order before the corner).
I don’t see how they could sort that order properly once they had slowed down half the field while the other half was at full speed in and out of the pits.

The time lost by those guys due to the SC is huge. JW was able to ‘undo’ it by passing the SC and got a drive through (~45s timeless) and still finished within 0.5s of LH.

CAMS argue they didn’t break any procedures. And they may not have, they are entitled to deploy and slow the field (it is a safety car after all). However the decision to deploy at that exact time (picking up the cars in 10th) and then hold up the first car that arrived was terrible. And if they didn’t know who the leader was, or what was going to happen, at that point they are useless.
Given the incident, they screwed half the field for nothing really. There was no danger given the position of car 9. They should have let it run for another lap under With the SC on standby, the pack would have sorted themselves out.
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