Re: 2019 Canadian F1 Grand Prix in Montreal
Whoopsy:SciFrog:Vettel did not gain any position, H was too far behind to overtake him unless Vettel came to an almost complete stop. As long as Vettel did not close the door on purpose while regaining the track (he did not, he barley made with without hitting the wall), he should stay in front. Part of the race. Furthermore he could not see exactly where H was.
See the first link from my post. It was explained there. Vettel made a second steering wheel move which we can't quite see on TV, and that was the move that the decision was made from. He also checked his mirrors so he would have seen where Hamilton is. While the 2nd steering wheel movement could have been for further saving the car from oversteering, the rules is quite black and white that way, when one rejoin the track surface, it has to be done in a safe manor and not directly onto the racing line, it does't matter if the car is still out of control or not.
As I have mentioned before, I had a similar incident at Spa last year when I when completely inside the curbs at Radillon. When I rejoin the surface I was still sliding a bit and onto the racing line. The same rule was explained to me by the race director and I got a warning despite my protest. Sascha Massen afterwards told me that was a dangerous move, he lost one of his driver at the same corner, his driver did what I did and got nailed by another car coming up the hill. The rule is there for safety reasons.
Any other decision would not make sense if the car behind is slightly further. Where would you put the limit then? 1.5s? 2s? 3s? 5s? 10s? 30s? One lap? The steward decision was unwarranted.
The standard rule penalty is clearly written at 5 seconds, it's not arbitrary.
Hamilton all of a sudden was much closer to Vettel, why didn’t he pass him then?
Hamilton would have made it passed Vettel had there isn't a wall but run offs there.
The question about the seconds is not about the amount of seconds for the penalty. It is about the amount of time the car behind the driver that goes off the grass is. If H was 4 seconds behind V, should V still get a penalty and/or let the guy behind pass at 1.5s? 2s? 5s? 30s?
What you are saying is Vettel deliberately regained the track and blocked H? Well no one but the steward say that... They have access to more data? Then why don’t they release it? I wrote it above, if he deliberately closed the door then he should be penalized. So far we have not enough info to say he did.