2020 Formula 1 thread

[ZCanadian]

Originally Posted by danegrey

ok, been reading about that re-start and all the blame and who should have done what. But I blame it on Bottas, yea I know he is allow to control the pace, but what he did was not smart. He was worried about Hamilton getting the draft on him. Well it did not work out, because of what happen in the back. Hamilton got him on the standing start.

Not sure on this one, can the teams at least tell the drivers what is going on on a restart, or is that some silly thing about not letting the drivers drive.

Remember that they did have a green light to start going, and being that far back, you probably cannot see what is going up front.

Also Indycar has had a couple of problems this year with rolling starts too, so it is not just F1..

Bottas was not smart on any of the starts in that race - standing or rolling. But he's not responsible for the cars behind him, other than to obey the rules (cannot speed up after the green, and then slow down again). What he did was not wrong (at least I've seen no official investigation or sanction, and goodness knows they've looked at that one many times). I think that Chico and Antonio are really to blame. Kimi was smart and avoided it all, but those kinds of smarts come from experience.

Don't know if the pre-start is subject to the same radio rules as a formation lap - was wondering that also. And the announcers kept saying that Bottas had to wait until he crossed the line to get going - I'm not familiar enough with the rules to know the details. If true, then the guys at the back really had no business speeding up that early.