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  1. APR193 said:
    Britpoint said:
    Former F1 doc Gary Hartstein made a good point in one of his blogs: double-waved yellows were being shown in the danger zone. They mean "slow down and be prepared to stop". If Jules was going fast enough to aquaplane, he wasn't obeying that.

    This is not a criticism of him in particular - none of the drivers slow down enough for double yellows, because if you're the only one who obeys them properly there's a huge disadvantage when nobody else does. As Hartstein says: human beings are on track and at risk in double yellow zones. Before we start looking at knee jerk safety reforms, get the drivers respecting the safety systems that already exist. Get them obeying the 'spirit' of the law ("how slow must I go to keep everyone safe?") rather than the letter ("how many tenths must I slow by to avoid punishment?").
    They were still aquaplaning while doing 80 when they started the race behind the safety car, they should have moved the race forward.
    It was raining all day long. Moving the race forward would have made no difference to the fact it would have been a wet race. Also they were only on inters when the accident happened. Weather conditions weren't bad enough for a safety car/red flag, Jules just made a mistake, same as Sutil. Just very unlucky it was at the exact same part of the track as Sutil's car was being moved
    Pretty sure they were on full wets?

  2. Not to take the thread in a different direction, but no. No. No no no no no no no no no no no no. 

    No.

    Go back to court Bernie, it's was nice when you weren't around.

    http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2014/10/07/azerbaijan-street-circuit-layout-2016-european-grand-prix-irevealed/

    Why the European Grand Prix? The majority of Azerbaijan is bloody Asian!


    This track in Baku Azerbaijan is used for the FIA GT championships so why not F1, wouldn't mind another Monaco style race.



  3. Britpoint said:
    Former F1 doc Gary Hartstein made a good point in one of his blogs: double-waved yellows were being shown in the danger zone. They mean "slow down and be prepared to stop". If Jules was going fast enough to aquaplane, he wasn't obeying that.

    This is not a criticism of him in particular - none of the drivers slow down enough for double yellows, because if you're the only one who obeys them properly there's a huge disadvantage when nobody else does. As Hartstein says: human beings are on track and at risk in double yellow zones. Before we start looking at knee jerk safety reforms, get the drivers respecting the safety systems that already exist. Get them obeying the 'spirit' of the law ("how slow must I go to keep everyone safe?") rather than the letter ("how many tenths must I slow by to avoid punishment?").
    They were still aquaplaning while doing 80 when they started the race behind the safety car, they should have moved the race forward.

  4. tbh the only way I can think of that would have prevented Bianchi's accident would have been to send the safety car out first to neutralise the field and then recovered Sutil's car given we knew Sutil was fine anyway. I think under these weather  conditions in truth this should have been done anyway
    Safety car did go out first then the Medical car.

  5. Sour win for Hamilton but always has a grin on his face regardless on how he won.
    I think it's quite disgusting from you to use this accident to find yet another reason to criticise Hamilton, but whatever tickles your fancy.
    Umm ok? A sour win for Hamilton because of Bianchi's incident and a grin on his face for winning the race, obviously any driver will take a win but this one was with a sad outcome.
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