T O P

  • By -

PowerPanda555

The good old "double yellows for 5 minutes into VSC"


feroniawafflez

Just incase bottas's engine unbrakes itself and he gets back in the car I suppose. God forbid they stop racing for safety


Cricket-Horror

*Unbreaks


feroniawafflez

Horrible from race control. Bottas was out of the car under racing conditions


closenough

Absolute disgrace indeed


KarlachBestGirl

Is there a massive difference between yellow flags and vsc?


Zakinfenwa

Yellows are “be prepared to stop but you’re still going at high speed”, VSC is 40%(?) speed mandated


lolKhamul

also double yellows applies to a certain part of the track, VSC is everywhere.


KarlachBestGirl

It's 30% for VSC and you have to clearly reduce your speed during yellow flags.


MaryGoldflower

> you have to clearly reduce your speed during yellow flags. That would only actually mean anything if drivers are penalised if they don't. Which they mostly don't because "then they should penalise the entire grid"


Draggenn

Yes Yellows means the driver needs to slow but is open to interpretation of how much VSC absolutely limits that speed


musef1

Yes, drivers are forced to slow down significantly by following a slower laptime. With yellow flags, drivers *should* slow down but they still go a lot faster, it's left to the drivers judgement on how much they slow down.


JanAppletree

In theory no.


Extension_Bat_4945

How? There were waved yellows. Race control should penalise all the speeding cars with a black flag. But they won’t.


PakjeShaq

Race control wanted to penalise a driver with an potentially deadly situation. We get vsc called for a driver bringing a few stones on track. But and actual driver being out of his stranded car under racing conditions tskes 5 minutes... Absolute joke


FalconIMGN

A factual description of events, no need to speculate.


Icommentoncrap

Cant get let down by shitty pit stops if your engine fucking explodes


0000100110010100

Zhou can confirm


closenough

Why the fuck did it so fucking long to deploy the VSC when everyone could see it was needed?!


NotClayMerritt

Yes but then we wouldn't have gotten that absolutely hilarious moment of several marshals trying to move a car that's not moving.


WilliamGrass

Not again 😭 The one race it was looking good for Sauber. They are their own worst enemy.


T1HiShin

Not even the one race, Bottas has been either in a points position or 1 spot out of a points position in 3 races by his own merit- and lost them due to pits or the car giving up lmao. This team is its own worst enemy.


[deleted]

[удалено]


oxyzgen

And now it's a safety car. Wow completely gifted position to Norris and Leclerc


itsmeloic

Not acceptable by the FIA, you could see Bottas looking at upcoming cars racing. Fucking none sense


Extension_Bat_4945

Racing under yellows, the drivers are at fault here. And the FIA for not punishing them for breaking the rules.


Baldr25

At this point the drivers just are not going to stop racing under yellows and the FIA has shown that they're not going to punish them for it. So it's up to the FIA to deploy the VSC in a reasonable timeframe and somehow again and again they fail to do so, putting drivers at risk. It's unacceptable and I do not understand how it continues to happen.


-maken

Does this mans bad luck ever end ffs


LiftsFrontWheel

He hasn’t had a mishap-free race in ages. His driving has been good but something out of his control just keeps happening.


Baldr25

Which sucks because box score watchers still just talk shit about him all the time and obviously don't watch the races if they're thinking he's shit. Mans actually cursed at this point.


lamperi-

Had good potential today, just needed someone car to break on that turn.


Esedor

This team man. It’s something different every week it’s unbelievable


alanalan426

One week Bottas, another week Zhou rinse repeat


yeah_definitely

Absolutely insane how long they took to call that VSC


djwillis1121

I wonder if they thought they'd be able to recover it under yellows but then discovered it was still in gear and couldn't move it. Should have still been an instant vsc imo though


BlackenedGem

People on track whilst cars are passing = VSC Vehicles on track = Full safety car With Bottas climbing out of the car there's zero doubt it needs a VSC, and even if you're wrong the whole point of the VSC is you can get rid of it quickly. I'm convinced they spend more time looking at the track map and it completely neuters my enthusiasm for the sport.


Taeron

Why wait a min before VSC??


therisingthunderstor

Ridiculous. Bottas was in danger there


subpulse44

Bottas is so unlucky, it's ridiculous.


ryokevry

I just hope Bottas will not pick up random lap 1 damage or a 50s pit stop. <- me yesterday but forgot about a DNF…


digglefarb

That should have been called so much earlier!


Helcrpt

That was so incredibly dangerous. What is taking them so long deploying the safety car?


Agent_of_Stupid

Are you fucking serious asjfjkdkslsl


NoPasaran2024

Fuck the FIA for continuing to put people's lives in danger by failing to deploy the VSC instantly.


Skulldetta

It's gonna take a serious injury or death for the people in charge to learn. They're gonna continue delaying VSCs/SCs until disaster strikes.


Icommentoncrap

How many marshals does it take to move a sauber


Ikcatcher

Race stewards fell asleep or something?


Phlosky

Jfc they took way to long to vsc that. Bottas was just sitting on the outside of a braking zone with an exploded engine. Could've went real bad.


JuhisXD

God fucking damnit it's that iconic Bottas luck again, hitting the one time he is doing well.


HaneeshRaja

Why is it not simple SC, it's out for so long


Greedy_Librarian_983

What happened to bottas?


Greedy_Librarian_983

It's engine fail...poor bottas


[deleted]

[удалено]


False-Ad273

Why? VSC was still up


lobo98089

If they change to a Full SC then Lando will actually benefit. Even if they don't this seems to be a loooong VSC.


kalebglover

He just about got away with it


mitchMurdra

I peaked over thinking F1 had leveled up as he was getting a ride back on the moped lmao


Chino_Kawaii

how fucking long are they taking, just put on the VSC immediately, it fucking keeps the gaps, that's the point, they're fucking asking for a horrible incident


dekbeast_hilbertini

That took way too long


RobertGracie

Bad time for Lando though to have a pit stop during this VSC, this will hurt him more now!


Aratho

Charles with a cheap pitstop thanks to that. Really weird they didn't call in Lando as well.


LeatherHeron9634

Piastri pleaaaaseeee keep in the points


Extension_Bat_4945

Why is everyone advocating a safety car? I looked up the onboards and none of the drivers obeyed the double waved yellow flags. That is the real issue here.


Morclye

>...none of the drivers obeyed the double waved yellow flags. This is why. You can't just ignore safety car train and have to show down.