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Old 4 Apr 2023, 01:06 (Ref:4150372)   #121
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Originally Posted by 275 GTB-4 View Post
So...you would allow F1 cars with "balloon tyres" to keep circulating through the maze of razor sharp carbon fibre debris?
That is not what he is saying. There were only two scheduled laps to go.
If we assume that the carbon shards covered the entire width of the track at that point, (they didn't) then that would be irresponsible at racing speed.
But they had already passed over the debris once by the time they came back around again and a FCY or virtual safety car wouldn't have had them at racing speed anyway.
You could argue that you wanted them to have a green flag finish but that policy is what created the demise of Alpine and the Sainz demotion, by putting everyone at risk (cold tires, not new ones) and ending with a safety car led lap anyway. Then we had the reset of the final result which was a nonsense.

You couldn't reinstate the Alpines so they lost out and Sainz got penalized with a 5 second penalty for an incident that Alonso never actually paid any penalty for because you went back to the lap before the incident to get the finishing order, but still saw fit to penalize Sainz.

As someone who has been involved in race control and stewarding that is completely unjust.
If you are going back to the previous order for your result and reinstate Alonso in his position then you put Sainz in his position too, as though the incident never happened.
You can't penalize Sainz, dock him 5 seconds on track for a safety car managed, non-racing lap behind a safety car that takes ignores any of the time that existed on track at the time of the lap you went back to, then reinstate Alonso as though the incident never happened.
If you are going back to the last lap of established racing before the second red flag then it is the grid order.

If it is the order at the time of the second red flag then that order is established and Sainz penalized at that point or the point they passed the end of the sector which should be on timing.

Then penalize Sainz 5 seconds from that position. But to go back prior to that start, thereby reinstating Alonso as though the incident never happened but still penalizing Sainz is a nonsense.

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