Re: Interlagos (may be a bit of a spoiler)

In article <vg9jnq$ptdo$1@dont-email.me>, ~misfit~
<shaun.at.pukekohe@gmail.com> wrote:

On 4/11/2024 10:39 am, pP85PrR wrote:

What an F'd up weekend.
 
I realize that there has always been weather that has affected race

weekends, but this recent one

is the worst I can recall. OK, maybe the Spa non-race is up there.

(And I've been a fan for a while.)

 
As an aside, kudos to the race director for the unnecessary confusion

of abort/abandon.

 
I'm afraid to check the news for penalties. I suspect it will be more

of a shitshow.

 
I was so pissed off when the red flag was thrown. It seems that most of

the field don't have the

sense to use the supplied full wet tyres when it's fully wet! So, the

race director decides it's

too dangerous and a guy who stayed out, partly causing this danger, on

30 lap old intermediate

tyres in a downpour is gifted a win?

I mean, first of all, what an insanely entertaining freak-show of a race
weekend! It was crazy, maybe too crazy in honesty but mighty fun to devote
almost the whole weekend to watching.

To your point re tyres, at one point one of the Sky commentators (Crofty,
I think) remarked "It is undriveable out there", but all the drivers were
on inters while it was absolutely shagging it down with rain, I thought,
so of course it is! I'm not sure if there's anything that can be done
about drivers hanging their arses out on inters hoping for a red flag tbh.
Maybe the race director could issue a directive that conditions mandate
full wet and that all teams must box at the next opportunity? Knowing that
this call could be a possibility might encourage teams to box for wets at
their own choosing, maybe trying to judge it so they do so a lap or two
prior to the race director mandating it, so then teams that have tried to
stay out for an advantage then have to contend with a busy pit lane and
potentially double-stacking their cars?

I dunno, sounds a bit daft, but the current situation isn't much good,
either. And with the red flag giving teams a free pit stop, it needs
fixing. Surely easiest thing to do would be to add time to any driver who
had work done under the red flag? So, change tyres under red flag, plus 25
seconds to race time to account for the pit stop cost, changes tyres and
front wing, plus 40 seconds, and so on. Reflect what doing these under
normal race conditions would cost. Even better, add the time and then
re-order accordingly when getting the race restarted; take the track
positions at the last complete lap or sector and factor in the red flag
pit work time to move cars to the correct position had they pitted under
race conditions?

Max got very lucky, but he drove a great race and would, I think, have
been on the podium if not first anyway. Hats off to the guy. Shame it's
all over now bar the fat lady singing, though, would have been great to
see Lando take it to the wire.