Are track limits not enforced on the race start? Hamilton goes below the white line to overtake a bunch of cars:
https://imgur.com/a/yos8Wxc
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Max Verstappen hardly had any challenge on his way to today's victory in the Austrian Grand Prix. Charles Leclerc did lead the race for a while due to strategic differences and finished in second place while Sergio Perez put up a great recovery from 15th to complete the podium.
I tried to grab a screenshot of what was the most egregious positioning, i.e. when he was the most to the right. It's tough to definitively say his left tyres are off the white paint. Quite the line to take off the start though.AR3-GP wrote: ↑02 Jul 2023, 04:25Are track limits not enforced on the race start? Hamilton goes below the white line to overtake a bunch of cars:
https://imgur.com/a/yos8Wxc
He's legal from the other view. I know it's incredible though!AR3-GP wrote: ↑02 Jul 2023, 04:25Are track limits not enforced on the race start? Hamilton goes below the white line to overtake a bunch of cars:
https://imgur.com/a/yos8Wxc
Well equal treatment for teammates fixes that, and a strong ferrari with a rocket engine that can lead halfway through the season does as well, and a few technical regs like no qualy engine modes and floor edge cuts, anti fric rules, to to neuter the strong points. Hamstringing is very welcome by me!vorticism wrote: ↑01 Jul 2023, 21:22Exciting in the sense of a top team being hamstrung by parity regulations, yes, very exciting; who wouldn't want that? Oh, what might have been 2014-2020, what excitement could have been had if a benevolent bureacracy had brought fair equity to that grim era. Oh, had the bureau held the hand of all the teams, and not only one, eight seasons of excitement could have been had.
I could be wrong, but it may not apply on the start finish straight or other paved straights for that matter, there's really no lap time advantage by driving to the sides on a straight. And we have seen cars squeeze through on the insider or even being push to the wall by others and no investigation for passing off track, or even pushing another car off track there.AR3-GP wrote: ↑02 Jul 2023, 04:25Are track limits not enforced on the race start? Hamilton goes below the white line to overtake a bunch of cars:
https://imgur.com/a/yos8Wxc
Perez overtook Verstappen to the first corner with the very same approach. And one of Alpine cars also.AR3-GP wrote: ↑02 Jul 2023, 04:25Are track limits not enforced on the race start? Hamilton goes below the white line to overtake a bunch of cars:
https://imgur.com/a/yos8Wxc
He's allowed to try two push laps at a time. Technically he didn't do anything wrong. And after T1 he realised that he already lost too much time so he gave up his lap.
That's only because he's not driving for Ferrari otherwise they would find a way.SirBastianVettel wrote:He's allowed to try two push laps at a time. Technically he didn't do anything wrong. And after T1 he realised that he already lost too much time so he gave up his lap.
We all know obviously that he wasn't really going for another push lap, but I don't see how they could penalise him for that since technically he did nothing wrong.
If Norris was more careful into 3 the lead falls on his lap.
