Following his sensational lap in Saturday's qualifying which saw Charles Leclerc claim a shock pole position for Ferrari, the Monegasque endured a heartbreaking result at the Hungarian Grand Prix despite his impressive pace during his first two stints of the race. F1Technical's senior writer Balazs Szabo delivers his latest analysis in his column branded as F1MATHS.
No and no.dialtone wrote: ↑27 Oct 2025, 04:42I stand corrected and this somehow makes it even worse… half of the top 10 gained advantages today by cutting, only he was punished, and again for being pushed off track. At least the race director note would have been black and white…
No.
No.
Verstappen did not "escape", he was never investigated.
No, Ham was investigated correctly for causing a colission in T1. Verstappen was alongside on the apex, so had the right of room. Ham did not have right of room. Everything well explained in the stewarding document.
Where is any proof of that? Was it even double yellow?
The release them on the FIA homepage.ScuderiaLeo wrote: ↑27 Oct 2025, 05:36They need to release the full stewarding documents for things that happen in the race,
Explained above and in the documents. He passed Ver off track and thus had to give back the position.
Charles never gave back his positionbasti313 wrote: ↑27 Oct 2025, 09:04No and no.
He was punished, because he did not give back the position. Everyone else did.
He was also not pushed off, he was too fast.
That was an intra Ferrari issue.
No...simply not, this is clear.
Yes, if you look into the back field it is very clear.
??? Reading issue?
The rule is about going off track and gaining a lasting advantage. So if you gained two positions, you must return two positions. I don’t think the stewards ever got to review Charles at T1, and you can only judge what is put in front of you. The failure is within race control for not referring it to the stewards for what would have been a simple 10s penalty.Dee wrote: ↑27 Oct 2025, 10:33The only thing that needs to be clarified is;
Do you need to give back only 1 position if you have gone off track and gained an advantage or do you need to give back the number of positions you gained while going off track?
Max gained 1 position at the start - gave it back - gaining nothing - no penalty
Charles gained 2 positions at the start - gave back 1 - gaining 1 position - no penalty
Lewis gained 1 position after leaving the track - did not give it back - gaining 1 position - penalty
Max and Lewis are clear cut.
Charles is not. Did the FIA just put up their arms then and say he already gave back one place and we are not getting involved in intra-team penalties like they generally do and it was up to Ferrari then to fix it?
