Sphere3758 wrote: ↑09 Oct 2023, 18:14
Xyz22 wrote: ↑09 Oct 2023, 18:09
Vanja #66 wrote: ↑09 Oct 2023, 18:07
I believe Russell got a warning around lap 50, if not later, so lap 46 should be one of those 3 violations. If I'm wrong, Ferrari missed a slam dunk here.
It's not.
The delated laps times are
Lap 8
Lap 10
Lap 55
I also checked previous FIA documents. Norris had a laptime deleted for a violation in turn 10 (same corner Russell went off track in lap 46) during qualifying.
Great work! Is it technically too late for Ferrari to raise this issue ? Given the millions on the line, it would be crazy to ignore. The odds of Mercedes finding 3 violations from Leclerc to counter this is very low.
Any protest would not be valid now. They have to be submitted within a short window after the race ends. If not, it will eventually be thrown out (even if the penalty is deserved and the FIA simply failed to apply it during the race).
We just had fresh precedent on this last year:
https://us.motorsport.com/f1/news/alons ... /10391233/. Haas protest Alpine because Alonso was not black flagged for driving a damaged car in Austin. FIA give Alonso 30 second post race penalty. Alpine appealed because Haas submitted the protest too late. Alpine wins appeal because of this and Alonso penalty overturned, even though it was technically the FIA messing up in the first place.
A lion must kill its prey.