The stewards made some excuse about giving the drivers conflicting instructions about minimum times on track and also to avoid unnecessarily stopping in the pit exit. Basically the drivers argued that stopping in the pit land was necessary to enable gaps when lots of cars come out of the pit at the same time. Personally I think that only works if there are lots of cars on the track not 8 cars behind you in the pit lane, as surely all 8 would then have stopped at the exit to the pit lane to create the gap but only 2 of them did! Once again rules open to interpretation, they need to act when things like this first happen and clarify the rules. I think Max stopped at pit exit last year and nothing happened, they should have learned and amended the rules after that incident. They do seem to dig their own holes and then fall into them.
there is zero necessity to stop what so ever. you can stop in your garage if thats what you like or need. if I were a steward I'd have said if you like the pit lane that much you can start the race from there and nail the lot of them.
Sounds like the stewards don't like the drivers stopping in the pits, but can't find a rule to penalise them with, and recognise that it's better they build gaps in the pitlane rather than clogging up the final corners - especially with the narrow stadium section here. Probably a scenario they'll wait until the off -season to tweak, unless someone uses it really egregiously.
This isn't a new thing though really. There has been inconsistent application of the rules for as long as I can remember.
as I said. send one car out first in q3 then park your second car at end of the pit lane and block it for 10mins amd see what they say.
Is this gonna be a Max cakewalk thanks to Ferrari tyre eating and Mercedes being out of position do we think? Or is there a variable in there that can make this a bit of a race?
norris coming from the back is one to watch. yes the ferrari will just chew tyres. however.... we could have safety car due to cooling issues and an engine blow somewhere. merc should be better with the full fuel.
The fact they’re trying to get Sergio back out tells me he’s off at the end of the year. Im pretty sure Ricciardos mojo we’ve seen all weekend is someone who’s told he’s alongside Max next year and that Checo is off into the sunset
I do not care who wins now just as long as it is not Vestappen, the only reason I watch now is the hope that he ****s up and destroys his car, without killing himself of course After the last race I am more than ever convinced that if Hamilton had a barnstormer of a race to beat Verstappen they would spend hours or even days to find a reason to disqualify him
