Wallio wrote:Legitimately surprised by that. Figured when they announced it would be looked at after the race, that old Hammy got away with another one. Glad to be wrong on that.
Now, with Sainz also under investigation, will his podium stand? Here's hoping not, as that would put KIMI on the rostrum.
So, they've allowed the podium for Sainz to stand on the grounds that, although Sainz did use his DRS - he was in fact one of eight drivers caught using his DRS in that yellow flag zone - because the FIA cannot disable the DRS in a single yellow flag zone, and because they argued that Sainz did slow down, despite using his DRS, they decided not to investigate it further.
https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/braz ... i/4600168/To be honest, I half wonder whether the reason why they didn't investigate is because, with eight drivers being caught - which is almost half the field - the stewards perhaps might have found it a bit embarrassing to have to penalise that many drivers, and preferred to simply brush it under the carpet.
Speaking of the safety car, it seems that the use of the safety car in that race, and the way that the restarts played out, seems to have also set Liberty Media off on trying to spice things up further by altering the way that restarts work to mix things up further.
https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/rule ... c/4599860/I can't help but feel that is kind of missing the point - those situations should be ones that evolve naturally, and trying to force them is something that I can't really see working out.
