Hari Kiri?
Pit lane congestion - what to do?
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garoidb
, May 03 2025 22:06
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#52
J2NH
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Posted 05 May 2025 - 10:33
Fairly easy fix. Increase the penalty for a poor release significantly. Say 15 seconds. That would kill a teams race and you can bet if that were the penalty teams would look very long and hard before making a release.
Make the penalty draconian and the incidents will stop.
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Posted 05 May 2025 - 13:27
Fairly easy fix. Increase the penalty for a poor release significantly. Say 15 seconds. That would kill a teams race and you can bet if that were the penalty teams would look very long and hard before making a release.
Make the penalty draconian and the incidents will stop.
Just make them immediately return to the pits, stop in their pit box and then release properly.
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Posted 05 May 2025 - 13:38
Hari Kiri?
Doing really well in Italian F4 apparently.
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Ali_G
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Posted 05 May 2025 - 15:54
Fairly easy fix. Increase the penalty for a poor release significantly. Say 15 seconds. That would kill a teams race and you can bet if that were the penalty teams would look very long and hard before making a release.
Make the penalty draconian and the incidents will stop.
What the point of a penalty that is never handed out? The stewards never give anything for unsafe releases. Norris in Japan was a clear penalty and yet nothing.
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Posted 05 May 2025 - 16:12
Wanting huge penalties for something that is beyond a drivers control seems harsh - both on the driver unwittingly concerned and to their fans who have paid a lot of cash to be sat there watching.. Bigger team financial penalties yes no problem.
Plus all this "oh his wheel was not over the line wahhh" is just embarassing for all concerned.
Edited by Red5ive, 05 May 2025 - 16:13.
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Posted 05 May 2025 - 16:21
Wanting huge penalties for something that is beyond a drivers control seems harsh - both on the driver unwittingly concerned and to their fans who have paid a lot of cash to be sat there watching.. Bigger team financial penalties yes no problem.
Plus all this "oh his wheel was not over the line wahhh" is just embarassing for all concerned.
This is not a driver game, it's a team one. You win as a team and you lose as a team. It's not the drivers fault if they pit and the pit crew have brought the wrong tyres out, either. But it still results in a big loss of time for the driver. If the pit crew mess up, the driver suffers.
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Posted 05 May 2025 - 16:36
Wanting huge penalties for something that is beyond a drivers control seems harsh - both on the driver unwittingly concerned and to their fans who have paid a lot of cash to be sat there watching.. Bigger team financial penalties yes no problem.
Plus all this "oh his wheel was not over the line wahhh" is just embarassing for all concerned.
The issue is that if Verstappen had hit Antonelli's rear wheel, AKA would have spun into his own pit crew.
Surely you want a strong deterrent for a thing like this to happen?
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Posted 05 May 2025 - 17:08
Wanting huge penalties for something that is beyond a drivers control seems harsh - both on the driver unwittingly concerned and to their fans who have paid a lot of cash to be sat there watching.. Bigger team financial penalties yes no problem.
Plus all this "oh his wheel was not over the line wahhh" is just embarassing for all concerned.
If the car is illegal, then the driver gets penalised even though he’s done nothing wrong. Similar situation here.
