Quote Originally Posted by airshifter View Post
How dare you actually focus on a way to make solid rules that allow racing and keep things safe. Pick a side, become a fanboi extremist, and shout from the rooftops!
that's unfortunately how many people are.

but once you learn who they are and know who they will unconditionally defend its actually quite amusing to read their posts.


Yeah, the rules right now just kind of still suck at clarity, and they are leaving the door open for these kinds of things. Racing will be racing, but there has got to be a better way to sort things out and keep it somewhat safe. It's sort of a catch 22 situation.... if the rules are too strict racing suffers. If the rules are too loose, racing suffers.

But I agree the penalty system really doesn't hurt a lot of times. Especially the time based penalties, as they give advantage to guess who????... As usual the top teams. While Merc and RB can pretty much recover from a time penalty, the farther back cars are in the pack the more positions it often costs them.
the main problem in this case was that hamilton wrecked his front wing and got to repair it for free during red flag. Without that he would have been at the back of the pack or even have to retire. in any care he wouldn't have won and there would have been far les discussion.

all we need to avoid this in the future is a rule that says that anyone who has his car worked on during red flag, has to start the restart from the pits .

https://www.racefans.net/2021/07/19/...om-retirement/