Re: USGP 2024 -Teflon underpants ?

On 2024-10-20 5:26 PM, Geoff wrote:

VER forces NOR off track at first corner and all is OK "after all it is the first corner of the race"....
 Near the end, VER forces NOR off the track, going off-track himself, and it is NOR gets a penalty.
 How does that work ?

It would seem that Zak Brown wasn't quite right when he told Lando that he (Lando) had been ahead at the apex. If Max was ahead, then it was -- apparently -- up to Lando to back out of the pass.
I think it was Martin in his commentary who suggested that it might have been better for Lando to have given the position back and then tried another pass later. Although he also noted that Lando came close to gaining the five seconds that would have still put in ahead of Max.
But there did seem to be some discrepancy in the rulings when a car was forced off track. Hard to tell just from the limited angles that the TV shows.