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He wasn’t good enough to be champion according to the FIA’s regulations. Arguably not good enough in 2022 either, given the 2022 Red Bull was largely developed under the regulation-breaking 2021 […]

pastaman False statement. Happiness tends to be quieter than unhappiness.

hyoko, the problem with that theory is that Max admitted perpetrating this incident. I’m not sure you intended for Max to be banned for 50 years. Unless you think Max lied?

@bernasaurus Different countries have different policies.

In the USA (and, I think, the UK) it’s literally just the certificate – the significance is that the country is impressed with you, not in any reward […]

He was going to appeal it until Max Mosely allegedly threatened to penalise McLaren’s 2008 campaign if the appeal went ahead.

@petebaldwin Probably because several other drivers have used the marshal argument during the time Gasly’s been racing in F1, and it never seems to have spurred action. Citing the tractor has worked before and was […]

Yes, I think it would make things harder before it made them easier.

Most likely both would get shut – it’s what they did last time this was tried in 2007-2008. Basically, the closed entry allows anyone pitting for any reason other than damage to get a penalty (so no tactical stops […]

@avroanson He did not drive at 250 kp/h – that wouldn’t have been possible on that corner in the dry…

Also, the regulations require adherence to delta. What Gasly was saying was that the regulations required […]

Assuming the speed indicator was accurate…

@wildbiker So in your view, opposing dangerous rule-making (which caused the impossible situation Gasly was put in) deserves a penalty, let alone a race ban?

Especially since he was apparently 9 seconds below delta, and there’s a penalty for being too far below delta in any given subsector (something the FIA should have mentioned and didn’t).

Where were the formal notifications of the vehicle which retrieved Bottas’ car? That was supposed to start this weekend.

Dynamic SC and VSC (and, for that matter, dynamic yellow flag zones) were one of the […]

Perez was allowed to be more than 10 car lengths away twice before picking up a time penalty in Singapore. The excuse given by Race Control should have led to a red flag on the first occasion the conditions were […]

@nvherman There are three handy slots for Andretti already, and if it weren’t for the anti-dilution payments, Andretti might already be filling one.

@ruliemaulana Still underlines my point that F1 would have been better off avoiding the cost cap saga altogether by not dragging it out and ruling on it in a manner consistent with the evidence thus far presented.

The FIA has spoken wrongly about many other things. Their claim of there being no leak simply doesn’t stand up to the numerous other sources providing details of such a leak.

@petebaldwin Because the people thinking in that direction were busy arguing that even a single-category version would have the exact same problem (but at the difference between “on the line” and “over the line”, […]

@petebaldwin They didn’t. This was what they were able to get the FIA to agree to.

@proesterchen Especially since the timeframe covered is the calendar year (itself ending weeks after the book closes on any given season) and teams have until the end of March of the following year to submit the […]