[WEC Race] 2021 The Bahrain races

[carbsmith]

Looking at the scoring really close, the #51 was ordered to give up what would amount to 11 seconds on lap 227 and they slowed down by about 9.5-10s from the pace the leaders had been running up until that point. They led by 1.6s at the first sector after both pit stops...this line of reasoning honestly doesn't help much. I still don't have much sympathy for Porsche given the timing of their pitting was a blatant attempt to milk the penalty for a free stop when their strategy otherwise required staying out as long as possible to prevent the faster Ferrari overcutting them (and AF Corse appeared to pit when they did to minimize any penalty implications), and I can't think of a mechanism to protest on the grounds of the time deltas anyways.

Canceling a position swap when the car behind leaves the track is normal anyways. If no attempt to give back the position has been made then it usually results in a time penalty but in this case they'd obviously already done the vast majority of it and it would just get written off in the flow of the race if there was more than 10 minutes left.