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Lotus F1 Team driver Romain Grosjean has been handed a one-race ban following his severe collision at the start of the Belgian GP. The driver has been involved in seven first-lap crashes already this season, surely a metric to have been influential in the decision making of the stewards.
Sky F1 analysed it after the race an he started before the red lights where offstrad wrote:I'd like to see the telemetry...I still think Pastor, however inadvertently, cut a perfect light...It appears worse because everyone else was slow getting away.
oops! I had too many tabs open and clicked on the wrong one - this conversation should be in the race thread.gilgen wrote:Oh Richard. This is a McLaren thread and here you are trying to turn it into a Maldonado subject. Have to report this 'off topic' comment!
Sky had an overhead shot that showed Pastor was already a couple of metres out of his pit box by the time the lights went out. It was a lot closer than it first appeared, given the size of his advantage, but it was clear cut. He had a couple of metres of movement PLUS the time it took everyone else to react to the lights going out.strad wrote:I'd like to see the telemetry...I still think Pastor, however inadvertently, cut a perfect light...It appears worse because everyone else was slow getting away.
This is really clear cut and any doubt is just a fan frustration.myurr wrote: ............
The starts are electronically monitored so if someone jump starts the FIA know about it with a very high degree of accuracy.
You can see in the video above that his wheels start to move 1-2 frames before the lights change. He was *really* close, but he did jump it by about 0.04 seconds.strad wrote:I'd like to see the telemetry...I still think Pastor, however inadvertently, cut a perfect light...It appears worse because everyone else was slow getting away.
Oh Maldonado....
lolIt annoyed me so much how poorly Spa was covered by SpeedTV. Lap after lap of procession was shown, then cut to Maldonaldo on the side of the track and THEY NEVER SHOWED WHAT HAPPENED. Ridiculous. On top of that, with the last half-dozen laps left in the race, Webber leads Massa, then Massa LEADS Webber? How did that happen? When did that happen? With so little actually happening on the track, how could they not bother to show Massa gaining a position on #2 in the WDC?
The broadcast of the F1 races are not contolled by SpeedTV its directed by a team under Formula One so you can't blame SpeedTV for thatRB7ate9 wrote:It annoyed me so much how poorly Spa was covered by SpeedTV. Lap after lap of procession was shown, then cut to Maldonaldo on the side of the track and THEY NEVER SHOWED WHAT HAPPENED. Ridiculous. On top of that, with the last half-dozen laps left in the race, Webber leads Massa, then Massa LEADS Webber? How did that happen? When did that happen? With so little actually happening on the track, how could they not bother to show Massa gaining a position on #2 in the WDC?
Aggravating.
Roger that. Aggravated at SOMEONE!NonNewtonic wrote:The broadcast of the F1 races are not contolled by SpeedTV its directed by a team under Formula One so you can't blame SpeedTV for thatRB7ate9 wrote:It annoyed me so much how poorly Spa was covered by SpeedTV. Lap after lap of procession was shown, then cut to Maldonaldo on the side of the track and THEY NEVER SHOWED WHAT HAPPENED. Ridiculous. On top of that, with the last half-dozen laps left in the race, Webber leads Massa, then Massa LEADS Webber? How did that happen? When did that happen? With so little actually happening on the track, how could they not bother to show Massa gaining a position on #2 in the WDC?
Aggravating.