Quote Originally Posted by Mirek View Post
These calculated times are always about "what if". Personally I think that it's better to avoid and if possible give drivers, who are in direct fight, same notional time. The situation when it's needed is very rare and while we can say that it's unfair for the one who already finished and could have won some time we can say the same about calculated time loss for the other. You simply can not know what would have happened in the rest of the stage. That's why I think it's better to avoid any such calculation (generally speaking - of course in this particular case when we know that Ogier had a puncture it's impossible that he could have taken some time back).
They cant give him a better time than the last split though surely? He wouldn't have taken time back on Meeke with a puncture so at the very, very least he should lose 18.4s. Ogier would be delighted with that