Race 12 - 2025 British GP - Silverstone

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Originally Posted by Whyzars

The stewards robbed us of a runaway win by Piastri and half the Silverstone crowd being able to leave early to beat the traffic.

The stewards tried to give us a McLaren battle by reining in Piastri. They must have had an orgasm when given the opportunity to pass judgement on a safety car infringement. Did they choose 10 seconds because that is how far ahead Piastri was at the time of the safety car?

The stewards might have outed themselves to be more producers of a show than motor racing officials.

If visibility safety was the reason for slowing the cars then a virtual safety car might be seen as the correct option. Was the safety car option chosen to improve the spectacle for the once a year viewers?

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I have to disagree with most of you. Given the visibility available to any car following another under those conditions it was the right call. What would you have said if Max had crashed into Oscar and seriously injured either, or both, of them, I wonder how you would be taking it. It was an absolute boneheaded move and deserved the penalty. Glad the Stewards had the guts to do it. In the dry, different story.

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Originally Posted by Used to be Starter

I have to disagree with most of you. Given the visibility available to any car following another under those conditions it was the right call. What would you have said if Max had crashed into Oscar and seriously injured either, or both, of them, I wonder how you would be taking it. It was an absolute boneheaded move and deserved the penalty. Glad the Stewards had the guts to do it. In the dry, different story.

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I would have said that Max should not have hit Oscar. Easy.

Max didn't hit Oscar so it wasn't a bonehead move by Oscar. In fact, there was no incident caused by Oscar's braking maneuver. Oscar applied exactly the right amount of brake for the situation. Maybe his cold brakes grabbed a bit more than he probably liked, fair enough. Nothing happened.

Oscar gave the safety car sufficient space to leave the circuit and racing resumed as normal. There was no incident that warranted a 10 second penalty.

If safety was the reason to slow up the cars then a virtual safety car was sufficient in the circumstances. Reducing a 13 second lead was ridiculous. I am questioning the calls for a red flag when tyre strategies had gone to crap and the stewards for actually bringing out a full safety car when none of the cars had even run wets.

Are we penalising drivers for almosts now? In future, the only way to get through turn 1 will be well spaced rolling starts it would seem.

F1 ain't what it used to be.

Bring on Belgium...

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Originally Posted by Used to be Starter

I have to disagree with most of you. Given the visibility available to any car following another under those conditions it was the right call. What would you have said if Max had crashed into Oscar and seriously injured either, or both, of them, I wonder how you would be taking it. It was an absolute boneheaded move and deserved the penalty. Glad the Stewards had the guts to do it. In the dry, different story.

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Having now seen the rear facing onboard from Oscars car, as well as seen the telemetry numbers, I have to change my opinion and agree with you completely. I didn't realize he had srubbed off that much speed until I saw the numbers.