Adam Hardwick

The rules are what are written in the regulations. Not the whims of the Race Director on the day. The race was not run to F1 regulations.

Why must F1 do a “better job”? This is how late safety cars have been handled for years, and while it can be an anti-climax, previously there’s been a collective “that’s a shame” and then everyone has moved […]

No extra laps are necessary (as the FIA confirmed last year).

The FIA confirmed no such thing, and the regulations still state that an extra lap is required.

@f1mre Indeed – I wonder why finishing under the SC is such a hot topic now, when we’ve had many races (and indeed a championship) finish like this without all this debate…

(For the select few who can’t read […]

@markwebber “It’s motor racing” is exactly why the rules should be followed. Without pre-agreed rules it’s not a race – it’s just a bunch of rich guys going around in circles. Motor racing is about fair […]

@khurtwilliams

Keep going. Don’t let anyone forget.

@cobray The source is the same regulations you quoted.

15) OFFICIALS
15.1 From among holders of an FIA Super Licence the following officials will be nominated by the FIA:
a) Three stewards one of whom will be […]

@cobray My interpretation is how any competent person would read the regulations.

As for the stewards, they are far from infallible.

which in our the[sic] determination

Their determination is, to be […]

@cobray The Race Director has overriding authority over the clerk of the course, not over the rules. The rules you quote above are in a section about officials (15), and in particular about the clerk of the course […]

@jelle-van-der-meer What is it you think Mercedes have lied about in the past?

@cobray It doesn’t say that. It’s not ambiguous.

I obviously should have said read the whole thing while actually paying attention.

What an absurd conclusion that article comes to. At the time of standing on the podium, Massa knew nothing about Crashgate. How was he more magnanimous thinking he’d lost with controversy, vs Hamilton shaking […]

@cobray The rules do not say that the Race Director can override the safety car procedure. I suggest you don’t take a single paragraph out of context, and instead read the whole thing.

The Race Director has […]

Any source to all teams accepting the early withdrawal of the safety car was entirely legal?

@MichaelN Putting aside that Hamilton WAS disadvantaged by only some cars being allowed through, the REAL issue is that the rules explicitly stipulated that the SC was required to do one more lap, meaning the race […]

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@sihrtogg The lapped cars part is a distraction. According to the rules, that race should have ended under the safety car. There is no ambiguity, no “who knows what difference it would have made”, no grey area. […]

@harrydymond If you want to rely purely on logic, then we still end up in the same place.

If, as you argue, the word “any” can either mean “some” or “all”, then let’s look at what that means. If “some”, it […]

@harrydymond Yes they did. See – a different context yields a different meaning for the word “any”, but we were both able to work out that that meaning was.

@drmouse I’m not totally convinced there’s anything wrong with that rule. I think the interpretations that give the Race Director carte blanche power of huge swathes of the regulations are pretty silly. Certainly […]